[Create with Canva! Kindle Book Cover Design] A Ranking of the Book Content That Received the Most Feedback
I recently published my new book “The Textbook for Cover Design Created with Canva, Useful for Kindle Publishing”.
Thank you so much for the response, which was greater than I had imagined.
This time, I have compiled the content that received the most feedback into a ranking based on the author's own judgment and bias.
I hope this will also be helpful for those who are thinking, “I haven't read it yet, but I'm curious...”
At the end of the article, I have also prepared a special quiz for those who are creating their own covers with Canva.
It is a surprisingly “thrilling” god-tier quality quiz created by a senior member of the online salon NEXUS, Mitoma-san.
If you are confident, please give it a try!
Now, here is the ranking from the main content✨

🥉 3rd Place: Cat
It might seem unrelated to the content at first, but the “cat” is an important character that created the worldview of the book.
This is the cat that appears not only on the cover but also in the main text.

It was very well received, with comments like “So cute!” and “I love that atmosphere!”
I often have it appear in illustrations and diagrams like this.

I am using paid Canva assets.
However, the assets were not perfectly complete as they were.
For example, I added a little ingenuity, such as “cropping just the eyes to use.”

Don't have the assets you like? Then why not make them yourself?
With that mindset, I am always thinking about “how to make the most of what I have.”
The methods for arranging assets are profound, so I will summarize them in another article.
🥈 2nd Place: Techniques for Incorporating Reference Designs
This is a method I naturally use on a daily basis.
What I actually do is very simple, and...
to put it simply, it is close to “observing good designs and tracing their structure.”

I thought, “Everyone does this, so is it really worth writing in a book?”
But surprisingly,
・I understood how to use reference designs as a foundation
・I definitely want to incorporate this
・My “way of looking” at design has changed
I received so many comments like that, and I truly felt that I was glad I wrote it...!
🥇 1st Place: 10 Examples of Design Don'ts
This is the clear winner. It received an overwhelming response.
・Easy to understand with before-and-afters
・Improvement points are clearly visible
・Understood the points to avoid
I received many such impressions.
Actually, for this chapter, I created 10 covers, and then created 10 improved versions for a total of 20 patterns.
I felt like giving up many times along the way...
However, since there were no existing books in the same genre that "showed specific NG examples," I persevered, thinking I would make the book I wanted to read myself!

Personally,
"This is good design!"
I honestly didn't get it when I was just told that.
Rather,
"This cover is full of amateur vibes, how can I make it look professional?"
I wanted to know that.
These 10 NG examples are the embodiment of that "voice of my former self."
In the book, I explain them thoroughly with specific examples, so please take a look if you are interested.
✏️ To those making covers yourself with Canva: I have prepared a challenge quiz
To those who have read this book,
and to those who use Canva daily to create Kindle books.
Please try challenging this "Cover Design Quiz"!
It was created by
Mitoma-san, who always shares information on the AI field in the online salon NEXUS.
The quality is incredible,
and it even effectively produces a "thrill of wondering if you can get the right answer."
By the way, as the author...
I didn't get a perfect score on my first try. (Even though I wrote the book...)

Please give it a try yourself👇
【Click here for the quiz】

Conclusion
In this way, I have ranked the content that received the most feedback from the comments I received.
This book is thoroughly structured with a focus on
"methods that can be replicated even without design sense."
Making covers with Canva
Not confident in your own covers
Want to first 'graduate from being a design amateur'
This content is meant specifically for those people.
If you want to know everything, please check out the full book.
May your Kindle book have a cover that is read more and picked up more often.
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