Daniel Solberg

Designer and dad joke connoisseur 🤓

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

https://t.co/oBkPC1Pkg9

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@verycracked @claudeai @opencode @paper What does your workflow look like with the tools you listed?

[Ben Gilbert @gilbert]

It's crazy my brain has a subconscious place for "don't copy anything, you already have something important copied but not pasted yet."

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@lennysan Figma
Anthropic
Asana

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

Claude Code and Codex have made it easier to work on things that were previously deemed lower priority than other work with less trade-off to do so. But the lower priority still rules at the code review stage in my experience, where the “less important” stuff ends up getting deprioritized anyway.

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@ridd_design @meag_han_c @danshipper Looks so awesome! When’s this coming to SF? 😁

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@KevinMelnuk @Rivian @WassymBensaid Have been thinking exactly the same thing. Smh 🙄

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@meag_han_c I created a skill called /product-guru that’s basically a product collaboration partner, and it’s been awesome to work with on product thinking/strategy.

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@_joelmllr @meetgranola 👋🏻

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

Just a few things that stuck out to me after finally seeing the @Rivian R2 in person yesterday at the Palo Alto block party:

• The haptic halo scroll wheels are really cool, but the way they look does NOT align with how they actually feel. Visually they appear like premium, "heavy" metal material or something similar (something with some weight and heft), but when you actually use them they feel plastic-y and almost hollow which is definitely a mismatch that was a bummer to experience.

• Rivian really needs to get the capacitive button for the rear window super dialed in. Across all three R2s on display, it was consistently finicky for me and for everyone else I watched try to use it. When the button didn't respond, people's instinct was to press harder, which became its own problem: the surrounding panel housing the button looks and feels like somewhat flimsy plastic, and the extra pressure on the button when it didn't work caused the whole piece to visibly flex. If a software fix can't make that button more reliable, it wouldn't be surprising to see it be one of the first big changes made in a future iteration of R2. It's sort of hard to believe that the R2 team didn't encounter this same finickiness with that button during the years they spent developing it 🤔

• The 21-inch Liquid Tungsten wheels are definitely the best wheel option available for the R2 in terms of looks, but they still only look okay in person IMO. As one of the few folks who has absolutely no intention of ever taking my Rivian off-roading, I wish they had at least one wheel option that feels less “rugged” and more spoke-y & elegant (like BMW-esque or similar). But I know I'm being nit-picky with this :)

Overall though, the R2 was incredible to see in person and is an amazing, beautiful car. I absolutely can't wait to get one! Rivian killed it and everyone who worked on it should be super proud. Considering how insane the crowds at the Palo Alto space were to see it, the enthusiasm is certainly there for it to be a huge success.

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

I got in line 40 minutes before opening yesterday and a notable line had already formed. By 10, the line was nearly to the end of the block already. I stayed about 90 mins and despite them consistently letting people in, the line was even longer (all the way to the stop light) by the time I left 🤯

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@nitishkmrk Looks dope 🔥 Nice job!

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@zendadddy @nikitabier @TheArtOfWarren Goals ✊🏻😤

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@jh3yy It’s also interesting when they put the base pay number in the title as if it’s supposed to to be a selling point, yet usually it’s not even competitive at all 🤔

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

Spent most of this week working on the largest projects at @opencomp I’ve tried yet with Claude Code - all on my own and with no dev help. It was really exciting to bounce between Claude, Figma, VSCode, and the browser. Felt like an interesting new flow state I definitely want to spend more time in.

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

In Google Meet, all of these elements are interactive except for this calendar icon. Feels pretty unnecessary to have it at all. It just adds more cognitive load trying to figure out what it's supposed to do and why it isn't doing something when you try clicking/hovering on it, since you assume it's interactive like the elements around it. @GoogleDesign

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@ridd_design @iansilber I loved Ian’s camera/photographer metaphor 💡

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

The obvious path for designers in the AI age is to move closer to code.

But the more valuable path may be upstream: closer to the customer, the business, and the problem.

If everyone can prompt agents to code, the scarce skill becomes knowing why, what, and how to build.

[Daniel Solberg @without_daniel]

@Hilbe I’ll be coming to R2 from a fully loaded 2010 Prius V with an 8-speaker JBL “premium” audio system that, in my opinion, actually sounds pretty good. If R2’s system can at least sound like that at a minimum, I’ll be cool with it. (Though of course, even better would be preferred)