Not a designer- Would love to try new products. Easy & convenient platforms to design basic content?

Canva - without a doubt!

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I use Canva for social content and love it! You can literally create a high-quality post in minutes and resize it to fit any platform. However, I haven’t found it as useful for animation/video. I'd love to know if anyone has any suggestions that are similar to Canva but more geared towards this type of content?

If you desire a quick fix for making content on social media, use Canva. They have all the formats of the different social media in templates. If you want to make new/original content like GIFS, use https://giphy.com/create/gifmaker. Suppose you want to make a simple animation (CSS oriented), use https://www.figma.com/. It takes some time to learn, but it is very intuitive.

Canva really is a marvel. The UI is just incredibly smooth and fast. The designs are gorgeous modular components that are endlessly flexible...this coming from a product designer of 12 years that is use to doing everything by hand, it has won me over for making quick creatives and mockups.