Aapo’s selected works

Please note that only a small fraction of Aapo's projects can be shown here in public.

Spotter Mobile

A client had a comprehensive and fairly complicated software for video surveillance.
They wanted to implement it on a mobile phone platform.

First I needed to convince the client that the mobile platform is very different from the deskop. There is no point in trying to implement the desktop application in mobile environment.
I started by reviewing competing products. There were about a dozen, some with fairly good implementation.
The most annoying part for all of them was that they all required signing up to be able to try the product with real surveillance cameras. This was very frustrating.
I decided we must get rid of it. The product must be free and available for the customer to use without any hassle.
I did customer interviews and found out the most important features. I focused to make these features great on the mobile client: viewing live stream and a few minutes back, going back in time to view a certain event, and to view alarms.
I created a paper prototype, tested it with users, modified the proto and tested again. Finally the design was implemented by an external vendor.

After the first week the project had paid for itself. A customer made a major purchase, and said a significant reason for selecting this vendor was the mobile client.
The alarms could not be implemented yet because of restrictions in the video surveillance platforn.