The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has admitted that contributing content to the site is too difficult and that it is effecting the growth of the website and also the types of users who contribute.

Here are a few professional looking website user interface Photoshop tutorials that can really put a positivie dent in your inspiration.

This post isn’t intended to be an exhaustive list of interaction design principles, its merely an introduction to the subject. And I’m definitely not going to attempt to enter the lions den of defining what ’interaction design’ is, that’s for another day!

Last year I compiled a league table of the most popular UX books read by UX Book Clubs around the World. I’d actually forgotten about the list but recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in the post so I thought it might be a good idea to revisit the league table and update it based on the activities of book clubs in 2010.

This is a great book review of Designing Web Interfaces by web designer Paul Olyslager. If you’re thinking about making a purchase, read this book review first to find out about the content.

In the web design community, Doug Bowman has distinguished himself both as an individual and as a part of big-name creative teams. Currently, he is Twitter’s creative director, a job he took after leaving Google last year.

The tablet world is boosted with the launch Ipad, Galaxy and the PlayBook

When launching a new site, it is important to build up buzz before actually revealing your masterpiece to the public. That way you can have an eagerly waiting audience to hit the ground running! This post will not only help you start a promising site, but will guide and inspire you to create your own sensational “Specialty” page to build up buzz. First impressions mean a lot, so make the most out of every opportunity. Here are 45+ Specialty Pages Every Website Should Have. Check out this list that we came up with just for you. Enjoy!

Wireframes, your time is up. You’ve served your purpose. You’ve brought order where there was once chaos and provided gainful employment for thousands of UX designers, but I’m afraid now it’s time for you to go to the big recycling bin in the sky. You’re just no longer cut out for the cut and thrust of UX design and have been replaced by that young upstart called rapid prototyping. In this article I argue why you too should ditch wireframes and embrace rapid prototyping.

Mark Kus, lead designer at Carsonified, shares his thoughts on creating more meaningful experiences, and how some trends may be too popular in web design.

Check out the Top Twitter Graphic Designer Profiles To Follow, Professional Graphic Designing is a growing field. Check out what the professionals are saying on their Twitter Profiles.

A summary of some very interesting articles in UX Magazine

Minimalism is a design style that emphasizes simplicity and the removal of superfluous elements in one’s own work. It’s applied in art, architecture, print work, and in web design. There is something extraordinary about making something magnificent with limited resources, and in this showcase, you’ll find the work of talented designers that exhibit exemplary use of Minimalism theories applied to web design.

We often observe participants in usability tests who are unable to find deliberately positioned content or controls. I recently moderated some tests in which participants were unable to find the functionality they were looking for even though it was available on the page. This seems to happen regularly in testing so what are the root causes?

It’s always fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe Photoshop to spice up boring text or pictures and make them into works of arts and masterpieces. Today we’ve got you a brilliant set of more than 50 high quality Photoshop PSD files to offer an assortment of techniques for making your next photoshop effect.

I recently started using an Experience Analytics tool called ClickTale. This tool allows you to track page views, and some of the normal analytics functions that you would get from a Google Analytics, but then also incorporates features like heatmaps, click tracking, scroll reach, recorded sessions of users interacting with your site/product, and some great form analytics.

Most beginners in development and designing will not look deeply into accessibility, the purpose of this article is to educate beginners as early as possible of the possible pitfalls and how to avoid them. It is like a cookie jar is atop the shelf and a kid is trying to reach it but can’t. What happens next? Frustration enters!

If you emerge from university today with a web design degree, chances are rather slim that you’re employable as a user experience (UX) or web designer. Maybe you learned a lot of stuff; it’s just probably the wrong stuff. Congratulations, you’ve been defrauded. Hope it didn’t cost you or your parents too much.

Over the years, I have read probably hundreds of usability tips and tricks. They all seem to give generally decent advice that are all blanket statements about usability. Such things as “Use a sans-serif” or “Make sure to minimize scrolling” are common among these lists.

Today’s post is a big one and it’s most definitely one for your bookmarks menu, because from time to time when speaking with clients it becomes necessary to have material to backup the statements which you are making.