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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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La passion c’est de faire beaucoup de choses. The other day I land on this phrase (passion is about doing a lot of things). Then I begun to gave some thought about it as it didn’t sound right the first time I read it, or even the second or third time! Everything about passion or being passionate touch me in some ways and I did wonder if this phrase could be true, at least for me. Can it be that passion is about doing a lot of things? Really? I often said that I don’t have a single passion as some people do (where they invest all their time and effort into - I truly admire them for it), but that I have many little passions (6 of them as the name of this site suggests). Passions that many may simply qualified as continuous interests as I don’t invest tremendous effort or time into each of them. Then I begun to think if that quote was not or part of the explanation for it. I like doing those passions or interests, mainly because they keep me active, not busy, but actively creative. My passion is a sum of interests that keeps me into a momentum, a wheel of creative sparks that pushes me continuously forward.

La passion c’est de faire beaucoup de choses.

The other day I land on this phrase (passion is about doing a lot of things). Then I begun to gave some thought about it as it didn’t sound right the first time I read it, or even the second or third time!

Everything about passion or being passionate touch me in some ways and I did wonder if this phrase could be true, at least for me. Can it be that passion is about doing a lot of things? Really?

I often said that I don’t have a single passion as some people do (where they invest all their time and effort into - I truly admire them for it), but that I have many little passions (6 of them as the name of this site suggests). Passions that many may simply qualified as continuous interests as I don’t invest tremendous effort or time into each of them.

Then I begun to think if that quote was not or part of the explanation for it. I like doing those passions or interests, mainly because they keep me active, not busy, but actively creative. My passion is a sum of interests that keeps me into a momentum, a wheel of creative sparks that pushes me continuously forward.

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Jul
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Design is how it works. If you were only hiring a designer to make your app pretty, you were already focused on the wrong problem.
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Leonardo DaVinci was a loser

If you want to understand why you need a minimum of 10 000 hours OR MORE to get expert at something… Watch this. This is beyond GOOD.

Second part here: http://vimeo.com/87448006

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Jul
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Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley's Innovation Factory

Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley’s Innovation Factory

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Any point of friction in your day to day life is an opportunity for Google. It’s not any one preconceived thing, but a wide, opportunist infrastructure that can constantly conform to your life.
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30th
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Design is about solving problems that humans have, not problems that products have.
— Designer Duds
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Jun
17th
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When that truly is your reason for coming into the studio, is just to try to make the very best product you can, when that is exclusive of everything else, it’s remarkable how insignificant or unimportant a lot of other stuff becomes. Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.
— Jony Ive - Jonathan Ive on Apple’s Design Process and Product Philosophy
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Jun
16th
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Deadmau5 - Phamtoms Can’t Hang

Tomorrow it is the release of the 7th album of Joel Zimmerman, and I truly wonder if it would not be his most epic to date.

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Jun
5th
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Design is about making hard decisions, not painting the result.
— user experience, design, product design
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4th
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Think big, start small.
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May
31st
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How to Make a Vesper Sync

Vesper is such a well thought designed app that reading everything about it is a blast.

You truly appreciate using it and even more when you understand the design process behind each decisions. Invisible design is good design.

I truly recommend reading this post and the one by Brent Simmons about how he built sync for Vesper.

There are also some interviews with the team on Debug, the podcast hosted by Guy English and Rene Ritchie. It’s Debug 15 and 37. I haven’t the chance to listen to the latest yet, but after listening to the first interview, I bought the app in a blink. So I know the second one would be as good.

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