Greg Merkle
As vice president and creative director at Dow Jones, Greg Merkle is responsible for overseeing
the user experience design within the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. With more than 20
years of experience in the electronic publishing and information industry, Mr. Merkle has both
the big picture vision of where and how information is being used as well as the implementation
expertise to bring goal- and task-oriented products and solutions to market.
Previously, he was associate vice president, Product Design, at Factiva and was responsible for user experience design for all products and services of Factiva. This included working strategically with the Factiva product organization and customers to prototype business ideas and build innovative products and solutions to meet their needs. The design group disciplines include: Information Architecture, Market Validation, Interface/Interaction Design, Human Factors/Usability and Data Visualization. Some of his perspectives on topics around the information industry can be found on his blog, thinking.