Serious question about the kanban board trend in design tools

I was sitting in my home office last Tuesday trying to organize a website project in Figma when I noticed my kanban board had 47 cards spread across 6 columns. After 3 hours of dragging cards around, I realized I had spent more time managing the board than actually designing anything. Does anyone else find that these project management features inside design tools just create more busywork than they solve?

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lucas97221h agoMost Upvoted

Honestly it's not that deep, just move a card and move on.

miller.susan1d ago

Had a buddy who spent a whole weekend color coding his kanban board in Figma, only to realize Monday morning that none of the tasks actually matched what the client wanted. He said it looked beautiful but was basically just a pretty to-do list for stuff nobody needed. I think these features are fine if you're collaborating with a team, but for a solo project they just turn into busywork real fast.