"At the end of the month, Bill Gates is stepping down as chief software architect of Microsoft, and retiring from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, the company he co-founded and led for most of the past 30 years. Michael J. Miller, former PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief, sat down with him to look back at how the computer industry has evolved over that time, and where it is headed."

• Part I - Hits and Misses
• Part II - A Long Sometimes Slow Journey
• Part III - Riding the Internet Evolution
• Part IV - The Problems and Power of the Cloud
• Part V - Windows Work Needs to Be Donen

"This time each year, technophiles are asked to part the curtains and peek into the coming year. While last year brought unprecedented growth in RIA adoption — especially by Fortune 500 companies — RIA adoption in 2008 brings a new onslaught of risks, rewards, challenges and opportunities for companies of all sizes."

Anthony discusses the risks and rewards of RIAs.

"Jared Spool literally wrote the book on usability. As one of the industry’s foremost experts, Jared has devoted his career to understanding why things work and helping people learn to solve design problems. He’s been involved in the field for three decades — well before the term “usability” applied to computers.

Jared is founding principal of User Interface Engineering, the world’s largest research, training and consulting firm specializing in Web site and product usability. He recently carved out some time in between discussing the current state of design to analysts and his responsibilities as a faculty member of the Tufts University Gordon Institute to answer some questions for the User Interface Resource Center. "

"Kevin Cheng is a senior interaction designer with Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Local, and is an expert in using comics as a technique to communicate the key concepts behind a design's intended user experience. UIE's Ashley McKee recently had the opportunity to talk with Kevin about the increasing popularity of using comics in the design process, the five inherent properties of successful comics, the skills needed to create comics, and the best way to deliver comics to key stakeholders. Here is what Kevin had to say about his experiences with comics."

Kevin's presentation from IA Summit 2007 can be found at this link and other resources can be found here.

In this article, the authors describe how to bridge the disciplines of usability and software engineering. Usually, both fields are made up of very distinct populations, talking different languages and using different tools. In the paper, the authors present an agile approach that could provide a basis for collaborative, interdisciplinary user interface engineering. The paper was presented and published at HCI International 2007 in Beijing.