Profile - Greg Merkle

Profile - Greg Merkle 

Current Title:  Associate Vice President, Product Design

Current Company: Factiva, Inc. 

 Greg Merkle is responsible for User Experience Design for all products and services of Factiva. The Product Design Group works strategically with the Product organization and customers to prototype business ideas and build innovative products and solutions.The design group disciplines include: Information Architecture, Market Validation, Interface/Interaction Design, Human Factors/Usability and Data visualization.

Greg has followed the evolution of the electronic publishing/information industry from content creation, metadata/taxonomy application and visualization to desktop and device deployment for over 20 years.  He 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.  Prior to this appointment Mr. Merkle had the role of Creative Director/Product Design and headed the product and interface design team at Dow Jones where he introduced user focused design principles and usability prior the Internet revolution. Mr. Merkle joined Dow Jones in 1993 as an Art Director.  He later focused on User Interface Design with the release of: Personal Journal, Dow Jones News/Retrieval, Dow Vision, The Dow Jones Business Center on America Online, Dow Jones Publications Library and Dow Jones Interactive.