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Design Studio

Scalable content creation 

Create beautiful, on-brand emails at scale without complexity. Design Studio combines intuitive visual tools with developer features, giving your team everything needed to build high-quality communications—all in Customer.io.

Trusted by 7,800+ brands around the world to send data-powered communication each day

Design Studio UI
Saved styles

Always on brand 

Ensure brand consistency and efficiency with Global Styles—your style hub containing your color palette, font-family, text-styles, and button formatting.

Design Studio example UI elements
Background grid pattern

An editor that knows email

Build and preview with features like dark mode emulation, emmet, auto-complete, Can I Email data, and plain text support.

Build faster with components

Organize content with universal reusable blocks. Customize with Javascript, setting your own variables, and referencing your code in any email.

Control where you need it

Save messages as templates, so your team has an on-brand starting place. Make changes in a safe draft mode, only publishing live when ready.

Avoid Gmail clipping

Avoid Gmail clipping

Emails built with Design Studio are light weight and come with reduced risk of Gmail clipping. We’ve optimized our code to remove code bloat, and unnecessary CSS.

Analytics beyond opens

Evaluate accessibility issues

Integrated Deque University's Accessibility rules easily evaluate your emails for accessibility issues and best practices.

Team collaboration

An editor built for everyone 

Team visibility

Identify when your team members are already editing, or building an email.

Version control

Save versions of your email as you build, and revert back to previous files when needed.

Dual editors

Switch between drag-and-drop visual and developer code.

Track comments

Give detailed feedback and leave comments for all stakeholders to review.

Convert leads
Beyond basic editing

Complex power under the hood 

Design Studio is more than just an email editor. It’s packed full of additional ways to customize and simplify email creation.

  • Generate AMP
    Automatically generate the AMP part from your HTML.

  • Build with MJML
    Officially listed as a supported editor for creating responsive emails using this framework.

  • SpamAssassin
    Easily check if your email is likely to be caught in spam filters.

  • Transformers
    Minify, prettify, and clean up unused CSS in a few simple clicks.

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