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6ix Passions is edited by Jean-Philippe Cyr,
a freelance user experience strategist.
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.
ads by YoggrtWelcome in his (6 times) passionate world.
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Say hi@jpcyr.com.
Mar
2nd
Fri
2nd
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.
(Source: aleks-w)
Mar
1st
Thu
1st
Your business won’t always be on a shoestring budget. But it is a mistake to cast off your constraints too early, or to chafe against them. Make them work for you. Get as much utility from them as you can, for as long as you can.
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Jamis - Jam Tracks and Black Keys
Inspiring post by Jamis of 37Signals.
The design is done when the problem goes away.
Feb
28th
Tue
28th
What is a Leap Year?
Why tomorrow we are the 29th of February and why we skip it every new century except if the century is divisible by 400. What? Watch the video.
(Source: youtube.com)
Flash vs. HTML5
A very interesting post from Aarra Interactive.
Flash gave us the luxury of predicability. We could predictably estimate the time a project would take and the development techniques used to achieve the end result were generally clear. Rather than targeting and customizing a launch for a slew of unpredictable browsers, we are only targeting one platform: the Flash runtime, which will run with 99% consistency across all browsers.
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Web designers and developers sometimes lose sight of what works and is demanded by a larger audience, due to preferring what’s considered ‘cool’ in their bubble”, and that “More big brands will shift from Flash, testing the water with HTML5 and CSS3 for focussed campaigns. But for entertainment sites, Flash is – and will remain – the predominant tool of choice to create engaging experiences.
For the record, I’m more into using HTML5 (mostly with the features that work properly without too many hacks) than Flash to implement a site. But currently working an gamedoc (webdocumentary as a game), I should admit that HTML5 is unpredictable and would probably jeopardize the project in term of budget and timeline if we try to implement it this way.
Feb
27th
Mon
27th
Usage is oxygen for ideas.
— It takes one day to make something cool. Two days to make something interesting. A week to make something great, and a year to make something that will change the world. Be iterative. Show your work, and your process in real-time.
Feb
24th
Fri
24th
What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen?
Well, you can’t do things the way you wanna do them. You can check off a reservation in the system, with the mouse, but hey, it’s at least four clicks away from this screen. And you can’t tell if the guests have been showed to their table or are waiting in the bar. So it’s much easier just to draw on the screen. (And when the evening is over you just wipe the screen with a cloth.) We’re very busy here, and this works just fine.”
This is what happen when, as a software developer, you focus on the features set instead of the user.
(Source: Jävla skitsystem!)
Red Wing Handsewn Collection
I always been a fan of the videos created for Red Wings Shoes. It is so human. You can feel the passion, the dedication of everyone in the making of the best pair of shoes.
(Source: vimeo.com)
Mint Julep »to the sea«
Stunning videoclip using two cameras to create this illusion of titled movement in stop motion. Love it!
(Source: vimeo.com)
Feb
23rd
Thu
23rd
Snow Circles
Young, I told my girlfriend that I was going down to get some croissants and coffee. In reality I went in the parking lot across the street, just under the bedroom window . It was empty and covered of snow. Then I drew a big heart in the snow with a lovely message using my boots as a pen.
Back empty-handed, she said, “But where are the croissants?” Outside I think ;) She looked. We didn’t get up before 2 p.m.
Thank you for having remember me this little joy.
(Source: vimeo.com)
