Vocational skills are very useful for human life, because every human being needs soft skills in working and living in society. By having vocational skills, it will increase a person's value in the world of work. One of the vocational skills that can be mastered by deaf children is graphic design. Graphic design has many applications, one of which is the Canva application. The purpose of this study was to prove the effect of implementing the Canva application on the vocational skills of graphic design of deaf students. The research method used was a quantitative pre-experimental design method with a one group pretest-posttest design design and using test techniques to collect data. The subjects in this study were 7 deaf students. The data analysis technique used was the Wilcoxon test. The results of the study showed differences in the graphic design abilities of deaf students before and after the application of graphic design training for deaf students before and after the application of graphic design training based on the Canva Application. There was an increase of 50,46% from the average pretest score of 54,20 to the average posttest score of 81,55.

Keywords: Canva application, graphic design, vocational skills, deaf.