You Are Not the User

Not a frequent user of Google's latest Gmail app Inbox. However, I love to hear that internal design teams are being challenged to realize that design should be approached from the user or end customer's perspective:

In response, the head of the Gmail design team made a presentation entitled "You Are Not the User." If you were not lucky enough to witness the carnage in person you could view its archived version on the internal Google+.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/16/why-did-g...