Realtime Landscaping Plus

What do you like best?

While Realtime pioneered step-by-step post-process recipes in its consumer landscaping line, it always relied on pros to use documentation or tutorials to figure out the right moves for themselves. That changed with Landscaping Plus wherein interactive software how-tos are now incorporated into the interface via the new Learn panel. It's not exactly the same as the last version, but it's definitely an upgrade.

What do you dislike?

Once you can see what you're working with, the interface does not look very graphically pleasing. There are smooth fade-in-fade-out animations everywhere while moving through the tool panels and even simple operations within them provide subtle animated feedback, such as selecting a radio button. With this, Realtime seems to have an extra polish in its design; Nothing ever “just appears,” the fading and other animations always provide context and feedback that's relatable to the real world where nothing just simply “appears” either. I suppose this is a long way to say they followed Apple's aesthetic and design language very well and Realtime Landscaping Plus is an average app through and through.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Decreased production time

Ease of use for new hires

Better workflow than past software