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Deliberate, layered, and meant to spark better thinking. This space is where we share what we’re learning, building, and occasionally unlearning along the way.

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Studio Tooling

21 Oct, 2026

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How to with Omni: Set up responsive layout grids for web, dashboards and mobile

How to with Omni: Set up responsive layout grids for web, dashboards and mobile

Studio Tooling

A useful grid responds to the product around it, from a dashboard sidebar to a mobile device in portrait or landscape. Hamsika Iyer, Product Designer at Canvs, shows how to shape the grid across breakpoints in Omni and take it into Figma, ready to use.

Studio Tooling

15 Oct, 2026

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How to with Omni: Keep spacing and shadows consistent across your product

How to with Omni: Keep spacing and shadows consistent across your product

Studio Tooling

The spacing around one card and the shadow beneath it are easy enough to set, but keeping both consistent across every screen takes a system. Akhil Desai, Product Designer at Canvs, shows how to set up responsive spacing tokens and reusable elevation levels in Omni.

Studio Tooling

13 Oct, 2026

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How to with Omni: Set up a working type system in minutes

How to with Omni: Set up a working type system in minutes

Studio Tooling

Most type-scale generators give you a set of sizes. Omni goes further, turning them into an editable, responsive type system that suits your product and is ready to export. Hamsika Iyer shows you how.

Product Design

28 Sept, 2026

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Why designers need a harness instead of better prompting

Why designers need a harness instead of better prompting

Product Design

A product is held together by a million little decisions, many of which have become muscle memory for designers. Debprotim Roy introduces the design harness, a way to make those decisions part of how an agent works.

Studio Tooling

22 Sept, 2026

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Omni: Our tool suite that gives you a starter design system in minutes

Omni: Our tool suite that gives you a starter design system in minutes

Studio Tooling

Over a decade of product work, we have built design systems for project after project. Omni now sets up a working system for designers and agents in minutes, right from the get-go. Arjun Rajkishore walks through how he built it and how it works.

Studio Tooling

11 sep, 2026

Inside a Canvs pitch: Studio expertise augmented by agentic systems

Inside a Canvs pitch: Studio expertise augmented by agentic systems

Studio Tooling

Canvs has built its practice inside complex products. We look at how agentic workflows put that accumulated understanding to work when the ask in front of us is to rethink an existing product or imagine a new one.

Studio Tooling

2 Sep, 2026

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Making each inquiry useful to the next: How research is now non-linear at Canvs

Making each inquiry useful to the next: How research is now non-linear at Canvs

Studio Tooling

The most useful research question is often one that may not arise at the beginning of a project. Premankan Seal writes about building a persistent research system that follows questions as they emerge, draws on what earlier projects uncovered and brings evidence into decisions while they are still open.

Studio Tooling

27 aug, 2026

Building LocalKit to keep routine file jobs local

Building LocalKit to keep routine file jobs local

Studio Tooling

A client privacy constraint nudged Himanshu into building his own tool for small file jobs. He talks about how he built it and how that maps to the way he builds with agents generally.

Broad brush strokes on a canvas

Build things that last

We work on serious products and partner with teams who think long-term. If that sounds like you, we should talk

Broad brush strokes on a canvas

Build things that last

We work on serious products and partner with teams who think long-term. If that sounds like you, we should talk

Broad brush strokes on a canvas

Build things that last

We work on serious products and partner with teams who think long-term. If that sounds like you, we should talk

Broad brush strokes on a canvas

Build things that last

We work on serious products and partner with teams who think long-term. If that sounds like you, we should talk

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