Sasha Zalygaiev

Product Design 1 → N Frontend Human Interface Visual Design

Kōro: Kanban Uncluttered

For a long time, I had been searching for a kanban tool that felt lightweight and uncluttered. Every option starts minimal and ends up bloated. Trello did. Notion did. Then I found iKanban: open-source, backend-free, local-first, runs as a PWA. It did everything I wanted it to do. You just had to fight the interface to see it. Cards were tiny, chrome was loud, and the content was secondary to its own container. So I redesigned it. Not to ship a product, but to have something I could finally use every day without fighting the tool itself.

The board. Cards readable at a glance, everything else ambient.
One board, two interfaces. The difference is what gets out of the way.
What it feels like to use. Cards move, columns reorder, nothing else gets in the way.
Route, course, direction. One arrow, white background, done.