At their Canva Create 2025 event, the Australian design company announced Visual Suite 2.0, which they are calling their ‘largest product drop’ since they founded the company in 2012. The SoFi Stadium event in Los Angeles highlighted new features that would foster creativity and productivity among Canva’s 230 million monthly active users.
At the heart of Visual Suite 2.0 is an architecture that emphasizes changing how projects are constructed. Traditionally, different design types meant separate files. And now, Canva is expanding that capability so multiple formats — presentations, documents, brainstorms, social media assets, print layouts, and even websites — can all be contained within a single, unified design file. This feature’s new name is Visual Suite in One Design.
“We’ve been bringing productivity and creativity together for the past decade,” said CEO Melanie Perkins. “At Canva Create, we’re just so damn excited to take that to the absolute next level.”
She said that a marketing campaign doesn’t have to exist anymore in fragmented documents. “Your brief, brainstorming, budget, and pitch may all be in the same design.” Perkins said. The same applies to other use cases, where the brief, brainstorming notes, budget, and a pitch could all be within a design, she added.
“Instead of dealing with separate files for financial statements, forecasts, and executive presentations, teams can now align.”
Does Canva Sheets Truly Change the Game?
Visual storytelling is a big part of data. Data is at the heart of all of these, for charts, reports, dashboards, or infographics. Canva seems to have found the right rhythm to effectively implement this technology. Data or visual data platforms were created. Canva is now linking the twosome in a single platform — one long, datelessly belabored— at least in part — by native productivity tools from Google and Microsoft, with Sheets and Excel.
To fill what its co-founder and chief product officer, Cameron Adams, described as a “key missing piece” in visual storytelling, Canva is rolling out native spreadsheet capabilities with Canva Sheets. Recognizing that interacting with data can lead to anxiety for many, he said Sheets is visual-first, enabling images — even Canva designs — within cells.
It embeds AI throughout with tools like Magic Write for generating data, Magic Insights for automated analysis and chart suggestions, and Magic Formulas that convert plain language requests into spreadsheet functions.
Canva Sheets, he explained, powers the rest of Canva, and it provides the data layer for that. Sheets are completely interoperable with every other kind of design in Canva, presentations, and docs, said. It can also pull in data from platforms such as Google Analytics, HubSpot, Snowflake, and Statista via Data Connectors.
Competitors like Adobe Express provide tools to create eye-catching charts and graphs, including pie charts, bar graphs, line charts, and progress charts. These features are great for presentations, infographics, and documents but lack traditional spreadsheet functions like those provided by Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.
And its incoming Canva Sheets will now compete with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, the latter of which also have generative AI capabilities that let users extract insights through natural language.
This data layer enables additional innovation, such as Magic Studio at Scale. It uses Sheets to run Canva’s AI tools — like translation or resizing — on chunks of content at once, automating repetitive work.
It also fully incorporates the advanced data visualization tools from Flourish (which it acquired in 2022) into Magic Charts, allowing users to create dynamic, interactive charts connected directly to their Sheets data and embed them anywhere across all their Canva designs.
Anyone can Code
For Perkins, one of the reasons why they wanted Canva to democratize coding was because “incredible superpowers” like interactivity and automation were enabled by code. To this end, the company released Canva Code, which enables users to make functional, interactive widgets — calculators, quizzes, or maps, for example — using basic text prompts.
Kyncl described the internal buzz around the product: “It allows you to go from an idea to interactivity with a single prompt in just minutes …
She said those custom elements could now be embedded directly into Canva projects.
Adams said that it started as an internal AI tool that was used to populate interactive widgets for product prototyping and has now been converted into a user-facing tool.
Design with Canva AI
Canva is also making it simpler to interact with AI. The new feature, a chat-style format, is available from the front page. By inputting the type, context, and even uploading reference images, users can talk to the AI to produce initial designs.
This chatty method also carries over to image generation and editing, where users can prompt for images in some style or structure and then hone them via chat, such as asking for an object’s color to be changed, then final edits in the main editor.
“You can now take AI-generated designs and go critical last mile in Canva’s editor,” Adams said. “We were very excited about how this is going to completely change the future of work and really streamline designs.”
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