[Sigia-l] So, how did you become a [Information Architect|Usability Engineer|Interface Designer|etc.]?

[Ted Han]

Hey all,

I've been semi-lurking on the list for a couple months after
discovering the Information Architecture book that O'Reilly presses
puts out.  I've further discovered through what i've read there and
here on this list that IA is essentially what ties together what
interests me about the web (used to hang out in various interface
skinning communities, as well as being a psycholinguist by way of my
recently finished Bachelors).  While i've done web work, and i've done
programming, and i've done statistical work within the context of the
linguistics work i've done, i'm perplexed and a tad bewildered as to
how one ends up in IA.

Have you simply stumbled in from some other line of work, surprised to
discover that this is what interests you?  Did you set out and go
"usability is my -thing-." and go out and get a degree in something or
other?  How did you find out about IA?

Curiously, and appreciatively,

-T