[ID Discuss] Guidance for someone interested in your field

[David Heller]

I wanted to add one other direction to go.
Most people who come to IxD are doing so b/c they are either visual
designers who want to go deeper into strategy, or developers who want to
have more of a role in developing requirements for what they are given to
code. Basically, people "who get it!".

I think about how I got here. No education and no portfolio (to counter
Dan's 2 points).

I got here through being a project manager, producer type. This role gave me
the middle man piece that I needed to find my way to IA and IxD. It's a role
that doesn't really require expertise in anything except being very
organized.

Just a thought.

-- dave