This week, we talk about enhancing the performance of design teams, a more efficient developer handoff process, and how to develop strong opinions. In the Sidebar, we talk about the tradeoffs of career progression and overall life happiness. At what point are you willing to pause or downgrade your career ambitions for a better life outside of work?Sponsor:BestPracticer helps you find the right design coach to support you to grow faster. You’ll be matched with an experienced coach from a leading tech company, who is a few levels ahead and familiar with your challenges. All of BestPracticer’s design coaches are design veterans who blend their years of expertise with coaching and leadership methodologies to help you grow faster and achieve your goals. You’ll meet on a regular cadence with your design coach as a thought partner on your work and career goals. If you’re interested in finding a design coach or learning more, you can visit designdetails.fm/bestpracticer.Golden Ratio Supporters:Vagaro is hiring designers to build the booking, payments, and marketing solutions for growing businesses in the beauty, wellness and fitness industries around the world. if you want to have an immediate, direct and high impact through design, learn more about designing at Vagaro.The Sidebar:The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at patreon.com/designdetails.Latest VIP Patrons:Dakshi KhatriHeyStefan DotComhugohilXande MacedoJim CarolanDaniel SimsAndreas BockischCharlie Gedeonsilka sietsmaDelilah MokriTom FejérKalv SandhuOri E.Niclas van EykPepijnJulie HoxieBrett BennerMark MarkovDestiny JoelleMeghan MartinHamza LabrinssiAlexa JarvisClarkeOmotayo Paul AJMain Topic:This week, we talk about enhancing the performance of design teams, a more efficient developer handoff process, and how to develop strong opinions.Alan Mills asks about ways to enhance the performance of a design team through tools and processes on GitHub.Mark Markov asks on Twitter: what's the handoff/delivery process? Is it similar to this or are engeneers educated on how to get what they need from the files?AutomatorJordan SingerCarlos asks on GitHub:Hey there, Im new to the design field, three months into my UX role and I have a fear that I dont have strong enough opinions or knowledge to come up with a solution and push it forward all the way through.I think, my problem is that I am overly empathetic and always end up seeing the best in other peoples idea and going along with it but Im concerned I wont be getting far ahead if I cant stick by guts every now and then, or may get advantage of because Im a “yes man”.How do you build your “no” muscle without damaging relationships?Cool Things:Brian shared Hereditary: A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.MidsommarMarshall shared Atrioc, one of his favorite YouTubers. Start with this video.LudwigDesign Details on the Web:? We are @designdetailsfm? Brian is @brian_lovin? Marshall is @marshallbock ? Support us on Patreon - your support literally makes this show possible. Thank you ❤️❓ Got a question? Ask it on our Listener Questions Hub, and we'll do our best to answer it on the show :)⭐️ Enjoying the show? Leave us a review on iTunes.Byeee!