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Onton’s New Canvas Tool Helps You Design, Visualize, and Shop Your Dream Space

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At a time when personalization and creative self-expression define how people shop, Onton is making it easier than ever to turn inspiration into action.

Ahead of the new year, Onton is introducing Canvas, an intuitive mood board tool that blends AI, curation, and shopping into one seamless creative experience. Whether you’re designing a cozy reading nook or reimagining your entire home, Canvas helps you visualize, personalize, and shop the look in minutes.

Onton Canvas mood board with furniture and material swatches

How Canvas Works

  • Canvas is Onton’s AI-powered “design surface” for home inspiration.
  • Users can drag and drop products from Onton's catalogue of 5+ million items to build your Canvas.
  • Every uploaded image connects directly to real products and shoppable links.
  • Use Onton's Imagine tool to generate realistic renderings of your space for your Canvas.
  • Create new versions of your ideas with one-click options to remix and explore variations.
  • It’s designed for everyone from casual home decorators to professional designers.
Canvas workflow connecting inspiration images to shoppable products

Why We Built Canvas

At Onton, we’ve seen how intensely visual the online shopping journey is and surfaces like Canvas are integral to how people discover and evaluate products. This creative process typically happens across disconnected platforms. The average shopper spends 79 days researching furniture across disconnected tabs and platforms, with 74% abandoning their carts because they feel bombarded by content, overwhelmed by choice, and frustrated by the effort required. We built Canvas to unify this experience, keeping the entire journey from discovery to transaction in one intuitive workspace.

Finished Canvas layout of a styled living space

Help Us Shape the Future

Canvas is still in its early days, and we're inviting you to help shape what comes next. Your feedback will directly influence how we build for visual discovery in this new era of AI-forward commerce. Start exploring and designing your dream spaces now at onton.com/canvas, and join our Discord community to share what works, what doesn't, and what you'd love to see.

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