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20 Flow Chart Templates, Design Tips and Examples
20 Flow Chart Templates, Design Tips and Examples
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Typically, you uses boxes or shapes to represent di erent steps in a process, and
then you connect those steps with lines or arrows.
But making a ow chart from scratch can seem like an overwhelming task.
After all, you’ve probably come across some bad ow charts before. Ones that
make you feel like you’re untangling a ball of yarn, like this eye sore:
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Help!
1. Demystify a process.
2. Help simplify decision making.
3. Set people on the right track.
1. In house employees
2. Freelancers
3. Consultants (https://www.consulting.com/how-to-start-a-
consulting-business)
4. Entrepreneurs
5. Small business owners
That’s it! Here’s a sneak peek of what the Venngage ow chart editor looks
like:
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Here are 20 ow chart template, design tips, and examples to get you started.\
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One of the ways you can use a ow chart is to break down part of a whole.
This could mean breaking down a concept into components, like breaking down
the factors that contribute to a business goal.
For example, take a look at how the ow chart template below visualizes the
breakdown of a budget:
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The chart above starts with the total budget and then breaks it down into
smaller parts, using icons to represent each area.
They also break down a whole into parts i.e. a company into di erent
departments/teams:
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Do you want to visualize two processes that work in tandem with each other?
To help readers better understand both processes, you may want to create a
ow chart that visualizes both.
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The key for combining two ows is to keep the charts simple.
If you try to incorporate too many parts, your ow chart will quickly become
cluttered.
For example, the presentation ow chart template below uses a simple 5-step
ow chart over a 4-step chart to show how an inbound marketing funnel
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Notice how the circles are in bright colors, so they contrast with the more neutral
rectangles. This makes the chart easier to read.
Keep these tips in mind when combining two ows in one chart:
Keep the ow charts simple, and don’t include too many points.
Use color and shapes to di erentiate between the two ows.
Provide a clear title and if you think it’s necessary, a brief description
of the chart.
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For example, you could use colors to di erentiate between di erent stages in a
process.
Not only can the colors help readers remember the information, it can also make
your ow chart easier to scan.
Take a look at how color is used in this ow chart template that shows a hiring
process:
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A gradient e ect helps di erentiate the most senior and junior positions.
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Pro Tip: Brand your ow chart template with one click using our My Brand
Kit (https://venngage.com/blog/my-brand-kit/) tool. The example below
shows how you can open our My Brand Kit tab and click your color palette
to apply it to the entire template. You can pull your brand colors from
your website or set them manually–up to you! This is useful for
consultants and freelancers who quickly want to add a client’s branding
to their document.
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Icons are another design element that you can use to make your information
more memorable. You can use icons to emphasize points and to illustrate
concepts.
For example, this ow chart uses icons to emphasize and illustrate each step in
the product design process (like a rocket ship icon for the launch phase):
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This simple org chart uses gendered icons.You could replace them with icons
suited to their role, such as a shaking hands icon for a partnerships manager.
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Pro Tip: Once in the Venngage editor, click any icon in your ow chart
template and then click “Replace” to change it. Our icon library with
thousands of professional icons will open. Search by keyword. In the
below example, I searched for “sales” to nd the right icon to represent a
VP of Sales in an org chart. The tool inserted (and resized) a shopping cart
icon for me.
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When picking icons for your designs, remember to follow these best
practices:
Pick icons that are the same style (same line width, at or illustrated,
lled or line art, etc.).
Make sure your icons are consistently sized, to prevent your design
from looking cluttered.
Don’t use icons to replace text unless the meaning is very well
known (for example, a stop sign).
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and drop to replace any existing photo in the template. We’ll resize it for
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Charts and infographics are the perfect formats for telling stories with your data.
They allow you to illustrate concepts and events using engaging visuals.
While customer journey maps can be quite simple, more businesses are creating
engaging visuals to tell their customers’ stories.
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engaging visuals to tell their customers stories.
For example, take a look at how this ow char template uses icons and
arrows to illustrate the story and guide readers:
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If you want to include more than one customer persona’s path in one visual, then
using di erent colors and icons (or photos) for their respective paths will make
your chart easier to read. Take this ow chart template:
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Use directional cues like arrows to guide how people read your
chart.
Use icons to illustrate the steps or stages in your process.
If you’re showing more than one customer persona’s journey, use
di erent colors and illustrations to identify their respective paths.
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Flow charts don’t have to just visualize boring business processes. They can also
be a fun way to engage your audience on social media
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You could create a ow chart that doubles as a quiz, like this ow chart we
made that tells you what your whiskey personality is
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to use them in your content (https://blog.leadquizzes.com/quiz-maker-guide/).
Or take this super helpful ow chart that helps you come up with plans for
Valentine’s Day.
The bright background color and quirky icons help make the design pop from
people’s newsfeeds:
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This ow chart template doubles as an event invitation you can post on social
media or print and make into a yer:
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You could also customize the above ow chart template for a special sale or
promotion
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promotion.
Keep your chart very simple, so people will be able to read it easily.
Use the optimal image dimensions for each social media platform
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Pick a bright, bold color scheme that will stand out from newsfeeds.
You could show how the two paths diverge from the same starting points, or you
could place two ow charts side by side.
For example, this infographic shows two potential paths readers can take by
placing two ow charts side by side:
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Keep these tips in mind when using a ow chart to show two options:
Information that requires more detail would probably require its own infographic
or chart.
For example, this infographic uses a ow chart in the rst section to show how
di erent elements of your content feed into its overall style and readability:
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They can also be useful tools to help you plan and prioritize projects,
strategies and experiments.
For example, take the ow chart template below that you can use to determine if
a growth experiment is worth running. It’ll help you plan and implement your
own business growth strategy (https://venngage.com/blog/growth-strategy/):
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Identify the key metric or goal you want to impact and the
experiment you want to run to impact that goal.
Ask predictive questions about the value and resources of the
experiment, to gage if it should be a priority.
Use di erent colors to categorize the types of resources required, or
the amount of e ort required to run the experiment.
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Use this ow chart template to map out a company strategy or project plan:
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For example, this brochure template uses a ow chart to show why this business
is sustainable:
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This simple but dynamic ow chart template lays out a reoccurring process
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This simple but dynamic ow chart template lays out a reoccurring process
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Put the “starting point” in the top left corner of your ow chart.
Use directional cues like arrows to indicate which direction the cycle
moves in.
O er brief description of the ow chart for context.
Using graphic design elements to play around with di erent arrow shapes and
sizes will bring out a much more interesting ow chart.
You can use zig zags, curves, or owy lines that weave through your sections! 〰
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You’re most likely to have statistics that will bring more substance to your ow
chart.
Adding data will not only add variety to your information, but numbers usually
are much more eye catching than a cluster of words are.
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Have your information draw a reaction from your audience by adding credibility
to what you’re showcasing.
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Without the facts presented in this ow chart template, you wouldn’t realize the
value in the information being presented.
You have the freedom to choose free blank ow chart templates from our site.
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2. Once you’ve selected your online ow chart template, you have the
freedom to customize your ow chart. You can use di erent lines,
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3. Once complete you can share your ow chart template with your
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L Elaine Sutton
Nice! Love it! Stirs all types of creative juices in me.
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Josh Burstein
Thank you! This helped me a ton!
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Sharad Bhardwaj
Thanks for sharing the great content with us. The use of organization
charts in the presentation or representation any of the report impacts
very effectively it benefit users for its visual communication of
information which is more effective than pure text and more
understandable to the users.
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