Every day, literally thousands of talented, hard-working folks out there gain new insight from their work, come up with brilliant ideas and then share their experience with fellow designers. Nourished by the gratitude of its benefactors and powered by the reach of social networking, this community has produced a wide variety of high-quality articles, resources and tools, available to everybody. Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designe …

The UX Chuchi is a regular meetup of Switzerland based Web UX professionals and web startuppers. Chuchi is the Swiss German word for kitchen. At the Chuchi meetings someone plays the user and does a usability test of an application provided by a startup. The screen of the user is beamed on a wall. All others viewers give improvement suggestions while the user fulfills the usability tasks. Join this group and participate at one of the Chuchis. It's fun! For Startups: Use this Meetup-Group as a pl …

you are a woman who works professionally with digital media design, web development, programming or server admin. you spend most of your day in front of a screen. you design, code, create, play, fight, struggle, move from ecstasy to despair within 15 minutes. you are mostly surrounded by men who talk, think and feel differently about the technical and/or design issues you are dealing with. you just wish to hang more with other women who talk geek, share, learn, socialize and have a good time. i …