As a result of the new partnership, AI-generated ideas created in Claude can now be brought into Canva’s Design Engine and Visual Suite. Drafts transferred to Canva can be edited, customized, adapted to brand guidelines, and collaboratively refined within a team environment.

Canva reports that more than 250 million people design on the platform every month, and its AI tools have become among the most widely used globally. This new step in the partnership with Anthropic Labs further strengthens Canva’s presence in the AI space.

What can you do now in Canva?

Claude Design users can generate ideas and create draft versions of their projects, then seamlessly transfer them into Canva’s Visual Suite, where they become fully editable and structured designs. Powered by the Canva Design Model, each draft can be refined, adapted, and personalized to specific needs.

HTML importing and artifact editing in Canva

The company is introducing HTML import, expanding Canva’s editor to support interactive code and AI-generated artifacts. According to Canva, this makes it the first platform to unify visual, document, and interactive content within a single collaborative editor.

In addition, drag-and-drop editing capabilities are being expanded. Drag-and-drop is an interaction method that allows users to move virtual objects such as files, elements, or cards using a mouse or touchscreen.

In its announcement, Canva states:

“From landing pages to widgets and interactive experiences, AI-generated HTML is unlocking new ways to create dynamic content. While powerful, these outputs are often locked in code, and historically has made it challenging to edit without regenerating your work each time you need to make a change.”

This means users can now import any projects created in Claude directly into Canva and edit them using drag-and-drop. Colors can be changed, elements repositioned, and layouts updated without the need to regenerate code.

Additionally, finished projects can be embedded into other Canva designs, such as presentations. Users can also add Canva Forms to collect data into Canva Sheets or publish projects as live websites with custom domains – all without leaving Canva.

Transforming Canva into the design layer of the internet

The current partnership between Canva and Anthropic builds on two years of close collaboration. Last summer, the company launched Canva MCP (Model Context Protocol – a standard that enables AI to connect with external services). Even then, users were able to generate content using simple prompts. In January, Canva introduced on-brand design generation by integrating Brand Kits into the workflow.

“This is all part of how we’re evolving Canva as the design layer of the internet. As AI makes it faster than ever to generate a draft or an idea, the volume of content is growing rapidly, and with it, the need to refine, adapt, collaborate, and scale that content. We’re already seeing this shift in action.”

Additionally, Canva highlights that its Magic Layers product has been used more than 9 million times within a month of launch. Magic Layers transform static AI-generated images into fully editable designs, reinforcing the idea that generation is only the beginning of broader changes in the design landscape.

What does this mean for Canva?

This announcement continues a series of major updates from Canva. On April 16 at Canva Create in Los Angeles, the company introduced Canva AI 2.0 – its most significant platform update in over a decade. According to Canva, this marks the beginning of a new era in which the platform evolves from a design generation tool into a central system for getting work done.

With Canva AI 2.0, the platform becomes a conversational, agentic system where projects move from idea to execution in a single environment. The new model stays with the user throughout the entire workflow – understanding intent, handling complex requests, and coordinating actions across the design without interrupting the creative process.

Canva AI 2.0 is defined by four key capabilities:

  • Conversational design — project creation begins with a dialogue with Canva AI, where users describe ideas and goals. The model generates a fully editable design based on this input.
  • Agentic orchestration — Canva AI has access to all platform tools and uses them when needed, selecting and combining capabilities to deliver a complete result.
  • Layered object intelligence — all elements are separate, editable objects, allowing users to modify individual components without affecting others.
  • Memory Library — the model retains working style and past interactions, ensuring brand consistency and improving suggestions over time.

Canva AI 2.0 will soon be available for Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans. Canva AI is available to everyone with limited features. Claude Design is currently available in research preview from Anthropic Labs.