Flow Charts vs. Sitemaps
“Flow charts attempt to visualize a process, usually centered around a specific task or function. For web-based processes, flow charts often represent a series of screens that collect and display information to the users. [This is] also known as flows, user flows, process charts.
What separates a flow from a site map is that in the former, time is the defining factor. The relationships between the steps are sequential, not structural or hierarchical. While sitemaps capture an information structure that may or may not match the user’s experience of the site, a flow chart defines a process from beginning to end.”1
A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for Web design, or a Web page that lists the pages on a Web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion.2
A flowchart is a type of diagram that represents an algorithm, workflow or process, showing the steps as boxes of various kinds, and their order by connecting them with arrows. This diagrammatic representation illustrates a solution model to a given problem. Flowcharts are used in analyzing, designing, documenting or managing a process or program in various fields.3
Articles:
Smashing Magazine
ConversionXL
Medium
sitemaps.org
References:
https://twobenches.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/flow-charts/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart
