Visual sitemap tool in modern web development

Creating a visual sitemap is important both for team members, who must be able to quickly understand what the final product should be, and for its owners so that they can adjust the website structure in time. Thus, you will not face possible edits in it at the pre-release stages of development, which is often very expensive and resource-intensive.

Web developers use it at each stage of development

• 1.

  At the planning stage

  When nothing is ready yet, and the product owner has just voiced the idea for a future website, your team should be able to quickly approve its basic concept to be able to form a technology stack and a list of tasks for each of its members. This is where the visual sitemap building tool will be useful.

• 2.

  At the design stage

  When designers start working on a website, they need a centralized solution at hand where they can write user flows and store their ideas and edits from other team members and stakeholders. It’s most convenient to do this directly on the visual structure of the future website to further refine them into hi-fi prototypes.

• 3.

  At the development stage

  Developers can use ready-made visual sitemaps together with the project’s documentation to get a full picture of all dependencies between pages and their individual components.  Also, sitemapping allows teams to estimate the scope of work in advance, provide designers and managers worthy solutions, and distribute the workload among team members.