Walking in Your End-User's Moccasins

There's a Native American lesson about the way to truly understand someone else's perspective, where they say you must walk in someone else's mocassins first before you can know what's like to be them.

"Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins." - Cheyenne

While it may have been fanatical of user experience and human factors industry folks to be so concerned with every nuance of your beingness, it would appear as though this passion is leaking into the general web design populace. Take the recent discovery by Jeffrey Zeldman in Userism. He found user wants in high demand by designers.