If you have ever used ChatGPT to come up with content ideas and then opened Canva in another tab to turn those ideas into visuals, then you might be interested in Canva's latest announcement. The company is trying to make that extra tab-switching step disappear and has teamed up with OpenAI to let users create, preview, and edit Canva designs directly inside the chatbot.
On Friday, it announced a new integration in ChatGPT. “Generate, edit, and preview designs without leaving the conversation,” Canva said in a blog post.
Instead of bouncing between tools, you can now describe what you want and watch a ready-to-edit design appear right in the chat.
The update builds on Canva’s existing AI connector with ChatGPT but pushes things further a bit. Previously, ChatGPT could help summarise or search through a user’s Canva files using Canva’s deep research connector. Now, it can actively generate and modify designs.
According to Canva, “the new Canva app in ChatGPT unlocks the next step: design creation and editing from inside the chat,” allowing users to “generate context-aware designs, translate assets, edit text, and more – all by simply asking ChatGPT.”
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In practical terms, this means someone can type a prompt like, “Create an Instagram post for our upcoming sale,” and ChatGPT will return a ready-to-edit Canva design in the chat.
Users can then refine that design conversationally, asking the assistant to tweak headlines, adjust tone, or rework layouts. One of the most striking features is the ability to edit text across entire designs at once. Canva says users can tell ChatGPT to do things like “remove all the jargon from this deck” or “make this presentation more conversational,” and watch every slide update instantly while the design formatting stays intact.
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Another key part of the integration is Brand Kits. Businesses that already store their logos, fonts, and colour palettes in Canva can now have those brand elements automatically applied when generating designs in ChatGPT. This means a marketing manager can create a presentation or social post from a prompt and know it already matches company branding, without manually checking colours or typography afterward.
Compared to how people typically used ChatGPT and Canva before, this is a notable shift. ChatGPT used to live mostly in the “ideas and words” stage, while Canva handled the visual execution. Now, those two steps are merging into one continuous workflow.
It will be interesting to see how businesses take advantage of this. Marketing teams could spin up branded campaign assets in minutes, sales teams could generate pitch decks on the fly, and small businesses or creators with limited design experience could produce professional-looking visuals without hiring a designer.
Canva frames this as a bigger shift toward making design native to AI conversations, calling it “a fundamental shift in creative workflows.”
Emmanuel Oyedeji
