What if the thinking that falls to the cutting room floor could become the missing piece in someone else's process?
Client
Canva
Year
2026
Deliverable
A Canva platform concept




Info
Canva empowers millions to design daily.
But designing isn't the hardest part of creativity.
Thinking is.
The messy, nonlinear, frustrating evolution of ideas. The ideas that are born in workshops, in showers, over drinks, during long days at whiteboards. The discarded routes. The concepts that almost made it. The ones that didn't.
What if those ideas did not disappear?
The Concept
Turn existing ideas into market-ready campaigns, brands and strategies in minutes.
All while crediting the people that made them.
Share unused campaign concepts and early-stage thinking
License alternate visual directions
Credit authorship of ideas, not just finished templates
Discover how others have approached similar problems
Build reputation through contribution
Not a template marketplace.
A marketplace of imagination.
Amplified by community.
Real businesses, Real impact
Creators are no longer rewarded only for the ideas that get chosen. They are rewarded for the full scope of their creative thinking. At scale, this strengthens Canva's creator economy and deepens emotional attachment to the platform.
By monetising creative thinking, Canva unlocks:
A new premium discovery layer for enterprise teams
Expanded creator revenue per user
Higher marketplace transaction volume
Increased platform stickiness
At scale, this strengthens Canva's creator economy and deepens emotional attachment to the platform
Credit
Ideation/Art Direction/Strategy: Stephanie Dempster

