What basic skills should someone have to get into user experience development ?

Hello,   You should know some photoshop skills only, then you can learn about html/css.user experience is how to make the user find what he wants and in no time easily, i think you gain this by seeing a lot.

here is some websites can help you to start.http://www.w3schools.comhttp://teamtreehouse.com

You need to be able to do market research and study the habits of users. Some of the general questions you should consider analyzing:

1. What are the surfing habits?
2. Learning curve should be under4 minutes if its a mobile app?
3. Accessibility features (basically a far-sighted person with a no. +1.5 should be able to read the content.
4. When and where, do you think they will use the app or website
5. If its the kind of app people will use several times a day, then is the interface optimized for long battery consumption.