UX Intensive

I’m heading to SF next week for Adaptive Path’s UX Intensive!  I’m really looking forward to it.  They set up a social networking site that has been fun to participate in.  It’s a great way to get the workshop participants involved with one another before we meet in person.  We won’t be total strangers….which is interesting in its own right.  Currently we’re just virtual, our personas meeting one another via pictures, the written word, YouTube videos, etc.  Pretty cool, but also kinda weird and post-modern.  Our first impressions are being formed before we meet.  We are in a time and place where it may become necessary to differentiate between first impressions online and in person.  Maybe the distance between those impressions will become more and more important and telling as we continue to evolve in the digital realm.