World Congress 2024

Insights from building the Canva Developers Platform to empower 185 million designers

July 19, 2024 16:20 – 16:50 · 30 min STAGE 7 (500)

What this session covers

Discover the journey of building and evolving the Canva Developer Platform driven by a vision to build the world’s richest design ecosystem. Now, over a thousand developers are creating generative AI-powered tools, workflow integrations, design effect apps, and more for over 185 million people using Canva across the globe.

In this talk, you will learn about Canva’s unique engineering culture, the values that drive us, and our quest to build the most simple and powerful design APIs. The speaker will also share valuable lessons learnt as we develop and grow the Canva Developers Platform.

Canva is a global online visual communications platform launched in 2013 on a mission to empower the world to design.

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