— Door 02 · Show, don't tell

Canva work,
actually made.

The fastest way to prove I can do this brief is to do it. Below are three real Canva designs I created and edited for this application — built live through Canva, then text-corrected and brand-aligned by hand. Each one opens in Canva. Underneath: the asset pipeline, a naming convention and a version-control system — the "organised repositories" the brief asks for, shown as a working system.

REAL FILES, CONCEPT CONTENT — These are genuine Canva designs I made for this application to demonstrate Canva craft and documentation discipline. They are not Crossing Hurdles' real assets or data; the brand name and figures are illustrative. The "Open in Canva" links go to the actual editable design files.

01Three real Canva designs · built for this briefclick "Open in Canva" to verify

Infographic · 800×2000

The Canva Asset Pipeline

An information design that doubles as the method for this role: brief intake → create in Canva → document for AI training → version control → brand review. Built in Canva, footer corrected by hand.

design id · DAHLmp1RQk0

Open in Canva ↗

Poster · 1587×2245

Design Asset System poster

A bold brand-consistent poster with a colour-swatch bar and version badge — demonstrating brand-system thinking. AI placeholder text was found and replaced with clean copy (the editing half of the job).

design id · DAHLmqep3DE

Open in Canva ↗

Social post · 1080×1350

"Clear the hurdle" social asset

A clean, scroll-stopping 4:5 social post showing the same brand carried into another format — the "brand-consistent across formats" requirement, made visible. Placeholder address swapped for a credit line.

design id · DAHLmt9c_Ew

Open in Canva ↗

🎨 These are not mock-ups. Each design was generated, then opened in an editing session where I read every text layer, replaced AI placeholder text, and committed the changes — the exact create-then-edit-then-manage loop this role runs all day.

02The asset production pipelineevery asset moves through these gates

Step 01

Brief intake

Capture guidelines, sizes and do's/don'ts before opening Canva.

Step 02

Create in Canva

Build brand-consistent variants across every required format.

Step 03 · gate

Document for AI

Log design decisions + metadata so the asset is annotatable.

Step 04

Version & file

Apply the naming convention; save into the right repository.

Step 05 · gate

Brand review

Consistency & quality check before handoff.

The two highlighted gates — documentation and review — are what turn a pretty file into a training-ready, brand-safe asset. That's the part of this brief most pure designers skip, and it's where my AI-annotation discipline lives.

03Naming convention · so a folder becomes a datasetorganised repositories, by design

# pattern
{project}_{asset-type}_{format}_{variant}_v{version}_{status}.{ext}


# examples
crossinghurdles_infographic_800x2000_pipeline_v3_final.png
crossinghurdles_poster_1587x2245_assetsystem_v2_review.png
crossinghurdles_social_1080x1350_clearhurdle_v2_final.png


# why it works
→ sorts cleanly · greps by type/format · version is unambiguous
→ status (draft|review|final) prevents the wrong file shipping
→ machine-parseable: each field maps to an annotation metadata key
  

04Version-control & status modelno guessing which file is current

Status	What it means	Who acts	Suffix
Draft	First build in Canva; text & layout in progress	Creator	_draft
Review	Brand & accuracy check; placeholder text removed	Creator → lead	_review
Final	Approved, exported, logged with metadata	Lead sign-off	_final
Archived	Superseded version kept for traceability	Auto	/_archive/

Every asset carries one status at a time. Old versions move to /_archive/ rather than being deleted — so the history is auditable, which matters when assets feed an AI training set.

Canva work,actually made.

Canva work,
actually made.