428: Teaching vs Micromanaging

<p>This week, we talk about teaching versus micromanaging, or how to give feedback as a manager in a productive and growth-oriented way. In the Sidebar, Marshall shares his tips and tricks for organizing icon systems in Figma.</p><h3><strong>Golden Ratio Supporters:</strong></h3><p><a href="https://designdetails.fm/zeplin"><strong>Zeplin</strong></a> lets designers spend more time on design, and less time prepping design files for the team. Effortlessly build user journeys with native connectors, flow groups, and text labels — no more maintaining extra layers in your design tool. Zeplin is so much more than just specs — <a href="https://designdetails.fm/zeplin">get started for free</a> to see why.</p><h3><strong>The Sidebar:</strong></h3><p>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 <a href="https://patreon.com/designdetails">patreon.com/designdetails</a>.</p><h3><strong>Latest VIP Patrons:</strong></h3><ul><li>John Casey</li><li>Francis Wu</li><li>mayra pulido</li><li>usrnk1</li><li>Michael Olson</li><li>D</li><li>Stacey Peterson</li><li>Justin Haldane</li><li>Dian Chen</li><li>Declan Reilly-Gordon</li><li>Alex Blanco</li><li>Phoebe Hogeland</li><li>TL</li><li>Justin Buckamunth</li><li>Sudhanshu Gautam</li><li>Martin Banuelos</li><li>Adam Stanford</li><li>Tara Kirkland</li></ul><h3><strong>Main Topic:</strong></h3><p>This week, we talk about teaching versus micromanaging, or how to give feedback as a manager in a productive and growth-oriented way.</p><p>Anonymous asks:</p><blockquote><p>I’ve been promoted to a lead, and I’m managing a few entry-level designers working on small features. When discussing UX flows and sketches, they seem fine. But I randomly popped into their Figma files and noticed that their files are not as organized, and their UI work has some issues with padding, margins, decimal values, etc.</p><p>I feel like this is something easily trainable, since it’s UI related. I