Oliver Stanhope
Creative Director · 11-50
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★★★★★
Five years in, and I've watched Canva evolve from a scrappy little tool I used for quick client mockups into something far more ambitious. That ambition is exactly the problem. Scaling it across a growing agency, managing separate brand kits for a dozen different clients, juggling user permissions, dealing with assets that end up in the wrong workspace because someone clicked the wrong folder, it's a constant low-level frustration. They keep adding features, but the team management layer feels like it was designed for an office of five, not an agency trying to keep client work cleanly separated.
To be fair, the template library is genuinely impressive, and onboarding junior designers is quick because the interface is intuitive. That part still works. But the enterprise tier pricing for features that should frankly be standard is hard to swallow, and when things go wrong, support is slow and often unhelpful beyond pointing me at help articles I've already read. If you're running a solo operation or a small in-house team, this is probably fine. For agency use at any meaningful scale, expect workarounds to become part of your workflow.
