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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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Product Design

6 Aug, 2026

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Imagining an agentic health assistant

Imagining an agentic health assistant

Product Design

Health insurance apps have always known more about their users than they could say. We conceptualized an agentic health experience that puts that knowledge to work.

Studio Tooling

31 Jul, 2026

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Inside the agentic practice: What we've been building

Inside the agentic practice: What we've been building

Studio Tooling

What a studio chooses to build for itself can tell you a great deal about how its work is changing. We introduce the tools being used and developed across Canvs.

Notes on Canvs

24 Jul, 2026

Going agentic as a studio

Going agentic as a studio

Notes on Canvs

Most of the intelligence inside a studio has always lived in people. Debprotim Roy writes about what happens when it starts living in the systems around them too.

Design Strategy

28 Apr, 2026

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Most teams start with the interface, we start with approach notes

Most teams start with the interface, we start with approach notes

Design Strategy

Before a single screen is designed, the thinking around the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of a product needs to take shape. Debprotim shares why writing approach notes has become a central part of how our team begins complex product work.

Design management

13 apr, 2026

Conventional management is making your design project more expensive

Conventional management is making your design project more expensive

Design management

This piece explores how Design Managers function as an economic lever in external design partnerships. Drawing on Canvs's operational model, it breaks down why consolidating design quality and delivery accountability in the same role saves time, reduces friction, and frees client's internal teams to focus on strategy.

Design management

30 mar, 2026

Why design managers who design make better decisions

Why design managers who design make better decisions

Design management

This conversation is between 2 Senior Design Managers at Canvs. They talk about the knowledge & discipline it takes to keep products coherent between brief and build, and how business realities benefit from the process.

Design

25 Mar, 2026

Great products are built on the opportunities surrounding them

Great products are built on the opportunities surrounding them

Design

A lot of product conversations begin with features and functionality. Debprotim Roy, Founder, and Premankan Seal, CDO, suggest that the decisions that truly shape a product tend to emerge somewhere else: in the space around the task it enables.

Design

18 Mar, 2026

The art of observing and how great product design starts beyond the screen

The art of observing and how great product design starts beyond the screen

Design

Real work in product design begins by being observant. Premankan Seal, Chief Design Officer, discusses how the best product designers study the world around them to transform their everyday product decisions.

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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