What attracts you the most in this area?
When it comes to User experience at first it seems as it’s such a rapidly changing profession and that there is no way to keep up. And in some way, it is! Which makes for a super dynamic and challenging area.
On the other hand, even though the technology, style, and interactions are ever changing, the User remains pretty much the same. It takes tens, if not hundreds, generations for the human genome to change significantly. Sure, habits and tastes can change quite quickly, and learning and desensitisation happens all the time (that’s why pop up adds loss their appeal pretty quickly), but many of the basics stay the same.
We can observe the same heuristics (like aversion to loss) in many other primates when experimenting with grapes and coins. Millennials and boomers might have a different brain structure but both will be likely to click away if your website takes more than 6 seconds to load. We will all still use Gestalt principals (like grouping by similarity) to make sense of the space around us and the digital space. To sum up, once you learn the core principals of human decision making, perception and behaviour you can apply it to almost any context.
And the context is also very broad in UX – you can work on anything from space suits to washing machines and still have many more directions to go for some new challenges.
I always said that I would be truly happy if I can help design a washing machine anyone can run successfully without having to read the instruction manual… hey, we can all dream!