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A watermark makes free output useless, which means nobody can test whether the app works on their real files. Capping volume instead costs us some upgrades and buys something better: a free plan that finishes one real job.
By José Da Costa — Founder · · 6 min read
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J’en profiteNobody picks the wrong blue on purpose. They pick it because the right one is three folders away and the deadline was yesterday. What changes behavior is making the correct choice the fastest one in the editor.
By Claire Moreau — Design lead ·
Reading a brand kit, writing native elements, and keeping an entire chart inside Canva's undo history. The three platform constraints that shaped version 2.0, and the one we fought for a month before accepting.
By Yann Perrin — Engineering ·
Most social video is watched with the sound off, which makes captions the primary channel rather than an accessibility afterthought. Line length, dwell time, and why a caption should never be centered over moving footage.
By Claire Moreau — Design lead ·
We used to sell each app separately. It punished the people who liked our work most, so we merged everything into one subscription and credited anyone who had bought twice. Here is the arithmetic, including what it cost us.
By José Da Costa — Founder ·
Chart layout, QR generation and font activation all run in your browser, because they can. Transcription, translation and rendering cannot — so we send the minimum, keep it for as long as the request takes, and delete it.
By Yann Perrin — Engineering ·
After a year of looking at the charts people build with Chart Studio, the pattern is blunt: bars and lines get read, stacked areas get skipped, and dual axes get misunderstood. What to use instead.
By Claire Moreau — Design lead ·
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