Media About DataArt
DataArt Joins OpenTravel Alliance
27th April 2012
Travel Daily News picked up the announcement of DataArt joining the OpenTravel Alliance.
“DataArt, a customer software development firm announced its membership to the OpenTravel Alliance – the standards body focused on the creation of electronic message structures to facilitate communication between the disparate systems in the global travel industry.
DataArt, along with existing Open Travel Alliance members, will collaborate to develop a flexible specification framework to improve suppliers and distributors’ communication channels, enhance productivity, and drive quality engagements for customers, partners, and industry affiliates. Recent work within travel and hospitality, specifically with client/partners VacationRoost and Digital Visitor has positioned DataArt as an experienced and trusted provider of distribution solutions to the travel industry.”
Tablets Need The Right UI To Succeed
29th March 2012
By Denis Margolin
Denis Margolin, a Vice President of Mobile Solutions at DataArt, contributes a bylined article on intricacies of tablet user interfaces.
“Switching to the touch-enabled user interface (UI), the native user interface (NUI) is a drastically new paradigm. It wouldn’t be unfair to compare this situation to the early 1990s, when the industry switched to graphical UI from alphanumeric terminals… Tablets are still widely perceived as a toy and a fad. They require a totally different approach to UI, and the techniques transferred from the desktop simply don’t work. While these new approaches are still in the early development stages, the public is failing to recognize the potential of this new platform… As a vendor, we try to give usability advice in these contexts, but it’s harder to do compared to developing traditional desktop or Web-based software. There are no conventions or hard patterns to be reused. Therefore, our usability experts have to sit down and work out the UI almost from scratch each time.”
