Canva customers can now create, edit, and handle their designs by describing their necessities to Anthropic’s Claude AI. The connection is the newest of several integrations that permit Claude customers to entry third-party instruments and companies, together with Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma, with out having to depart their dialog with the AI chatbot.
Beginning as we speak, Claude customers will be capable of use pure language prompts to finish design duties of their linked Canva account, reminiscent of creating displays, resizing pictures, and mechanically filling premade templates. The combination additionally allows customers to seek for key phrases inside Canva Docs, Shows, and model templates, and summarize them via the Claude AI interface. The function requires each a paid Canva account (which begins at $15 per 30 days) and a paid Claude account ($17 per 30 days).
Anthropic is using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that Canva launched final month, which gives Claude with safe entry to consumer Canva content material. MCP, also known as the “USB-C port of AI” apps, is an open-source normal that allows builders to shortly join their AI fashions with different apps and companies. Corporations like Anthropic, Microsoft, Figma, and Canva have embraced MCP to arrange their platforms for a future tech panorama that’s anticipated to be stuffed with AI brokers.
“As a substitute of importing or manually transferring concepts, customers can now generate, summarize, evaluation, and publish Canva designs, all inside a Claude chat,” Canva Ecosystem head Anwar Haneef stated in a press release to The Verge. “MCP makes this potential with a easy toggle in settings, marking a strong shift towards user-friendly, AI-first workflows that mix creativity and productiveness in a single.”
Claude is the primary AI assistant to assist Canva design workflows via MCP, however the chatbot has different design platform choices because of a similar partnership with Figma that was introduced final month. A new Claude integrations directory can also be launching on internet and desktop as we speak, which ought to give customers a simple overview of all of the instruments and related apps at their disposal.