6ix Passions

6ix Passions is edited by Jean-Philippe Cyr,
a freelance user experience strategist.

He lives in Montreal, Magog and St. Martin, likes good foods and wines, cooking, travelling, movies, tv series and outdoor. He plays with his iPhone and browses the Web with his enhanced Firefox on a Mac.

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Archive

Jan
8th

Sun

Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking

99% Of iOS users don’t know this. Read and learn how multitasking is working in iOS and stop wasting your time killing those apps in the background.

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Our job isn’t to remove complexity but to make complex information accessible—a challenge for the small screen, but an important one.

— Josh Clark - What I Learned About the Web in 2011

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Change is good; it just takes time to adjust to it. Never get too comfortable. Good change is always around the corner.

— Liz Danzico - What I Learned About the Web in 2011

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Making is momentum. Everything you make is a step toward making something else.

— Chris Fahey - What I Learned About the Web in 2011

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Iteration is king

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Naz Hamid - What I Learned About the Web in 2011

Shipping it is more important than trying to perfect it endlessly behind the scenes. It’s better to release with a solid core set of features and then iterate and add as time or users necessitate it. By launching a product, website or what have you into the public, you put the pressure on to rapidly make it better as time goes by. You can aim for perfection, but you should never reach it. It can always be better.

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I’m repeatedly reminded that the best design connects people.

— Dan Mall - What I Learned About the Web in 2011

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More and more, the “web” is not a platform. It’s a service with clients on many platforms.

— Jeff Croft - What I Learned About the Web in 2011

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Jan
4th

Wed

A players hire A players, B players hire C players. Do you get it?

— Steve Jobs - Macintosh Stories: How to Hire Insanely Great Employees

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Dec
22nd

Thu

Extreme Bike Trails

Those guys are certainly very confident in their inner ear balance for being on this trail that is certainly not a biking trail. Impossible not to watch until the end.

(Source: youtube.com)

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Dec
21st

Wed

Luck is an attitude

What a great commercial. Wow.

(Source: youtube.com)

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Zeitgeist 2011 by Google

Certainly the best video a team at Google did about what we have care for the past year by showcasing its portfolio of services.

Technology is second. Content is king, always.

(Source: youtube.com)

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