What We Can Learn From the Evolution of CMS
Summary
Early adopters tend to be the most tech savvy members of the population; the average person found the mobile phones available on the market hard to use. Steve Jobs is famous for wanting to build computers for normal people, and for making technology very simple and easy to use, but his idea fell onto fertile ground only when the tech market became mainstream. By the time everyone learned to use a mouse, handle a phone, use a computer, and send email, the market had become much bigger, and less tech savvy users started to use technology in everyday life. This demand led to the creation of a number of differently designed CMS aiming at mommy bloggers, artists and anyone who wanted to have a Web presence, which today is almost every living person. The new mantra became “simple, intuitive, easy to use.” Even WordPress changed the marketing messages on its home page to target the more general public.