For those who want to understand color spaces, transform videos from one color space to another, or read how I almost went crazy working out why my Canva-generated videos looked slightly off, color-wise — by Sven Schindler Hello @cop a user reported that their exported video looks less saturated compared to how it looks like on the editor. This is the sentence that started it all. A user wanted to export a number of colorful Canva slides to a video file. I just recently…

Discovery of Headless Chromium security vulnerability, how it works, and mitigations that should be applied to similar configurations — by Zac Sims and Rhys Elsmore Canva is a comprehensive design tool that provides a large degree of flexibility for how people create designs and the array of contents they can embed in a design. This rich client-side flexibility presents some challenges for functionality we need to provide from the…

How we developed a bespoke frequency-recency segmentation to understand our users’ diverse usage patterns — by Cuong Duong and Naomi Stuart At Canva, our mission is to empower everyone to design anything. Over the years, the definition of “anything” has expanded: from social media material, resumes, and cards, to infographics, presentations, print, and video. Canva’s user base is also diverse, with widely varying needs and…

How we used a CLIP-inspired model to suggest keywords for template labeling in multiple languages — by Sachinthaka Abeywardana At Canva we have millions of pieces of content, across many languages to serve our over 100 million monthly active users around the world. In order for them to be surfaced during search, keywords are a necessity. It is common practice in most websites to include keywords…

The evolution of media persistence during hypergrowth at Canva — by Robert Sharp, Jacky Chen As a design tool, a huge part of Canva’s value proposition is our library of more than 100 million stock photos and graphics and the ability to upload your own. Canva launched in 2013 with a library of photos and graphics and the ability for…

More on how we are rebuilding Canva’s search stack and pipeline — by Stuart Cam In the first part of this blog post series, we discussed the challenges we faced with our current search architecture, the requirements needed for a new architecture, and the considerations to take into account in designing our new solution. In this second part, we’ll dive into the…

How we are rebuilding Canva’s search stack and pipeline — by Stuart Cam This two-part blog post details the challenges we faced within the Search and Recommendations group in building a scalable search architecture. In part I, we’ll discuss the challenges, and in part II, we’ll break down the details of our search architecture, and how we take a platform-first…

How we built our first iteration of content matching at Canva — by Christopher Bong Canva hosts a huge collection of ever-growing, user media that needs to be stored and managed properly. The diversity of this media poses challenges around the moderation and reduction of unnecessary duplicate content. …

From firefighting chaos to problem solving zen — by Zi Yang Pang At Canva, our quality assistance model aims to drive quality by shifting the process left. …