We're told that making assumptions is dangerous, yet in UX we make them every day. Who our users are, what they want, how they do things. \n\nWith so many projects vying for our time it\u2019s inevitable we\u2019ll make assumptions, so how do we minimise the risks?\n\nIn this session we\u2019ll:\n\nsee how a group of 19th-century philosophers promoted the use of assumptions to make fast decisions \ntake lessons from mountaineering accidents in the UK so you can make safer assumptions\nlearn how to implement processes to check just how risky your subconscious biases really are