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Sitemap 1:04
A 64-second explainer of Sitemap, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
A sitemap is a diagram of a product's structure - its pages or screens arranged in a hierarchy that shows how they group and nest and how they relate to each other. It makes a site's information architecture visible at a glance, so you can see the whole organisation, judge whether it's logical, and spot where things are buried, duplicated or in the wrong place.
As a flat list of pages, you couldn't tell how the site was organised or whether it made sense. As a sitemap, the structure - the groups, the hierarchy, the buried page - is obvious at a glance. That's what a sitemap is for: making information architecture visible so you can judge and fix it on paper, before it's expensive to change in a built product.
