Olli Savolainen

I bring clarity and simplicity to digital projects, shaping every step of the journey.

From understanding your users to creating designs that feel intuitive and alive, I’ll guide you through:
– Usability testing: See how real people connect with your product
– UX & Visual Design: Clean, seamless interfaces that just feel right
– Conceptual modeling: Bring abstract ideas into focus
– User research: Learn what matters most to your audience
– Accessibility evaluation: Make your product inclusive to all user groups and comply with necessary regulations
– Implementation: Advanced CSS, JS, React, Next, PHP, Python, Qt, you name it. I can bridge the gap from frontend to your APIs and even backend logic. Architectural design, database modeling.

Let’s create something that doesn’t just work—something people love.

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The name is Olli. I design and make apps happen.
Actual users have been shown to enjoy using them.

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reNamer.click: recovering files from your e-ink tablet (Windows app)

2023-11: Download is upcoming! An e-ink tablet is great. It’s your digital notebook, your portable…

Desktop: Industrial Measurement Solution + Realtime automation

ForceProof is a 21st century, comprehensive software and hardware product solution for materials testing.Entrepreneur; Product…

Desktop: JPEG Autorotate photo rotating app

“Ever had the problem of pictures taken in portrait showing up in landscape in emails,…

Mobile game: The Great Boogie Hunt

PLAY NOW (DESKTOP) You can add the mobile web app as an icon to you home…

Desktop Diagram App: ReDash (Java)

ReDash – a tree drawing application is a windowing Java application for modeling simple hierarchies,…

Smaller apps live in the Coding, internet tech and education blog.

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Demos & coding blog

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Relationship Questions / Dating app, Influencer/Company marketing matching

In this post I’m exploring two different takes on matching people in two different contexts….

Simplifying for Focus: Block game for alleviating PTSD symptoms

Play tTrsTherapy responsive; touch, keyboard and mouse controls, labels in Finnish only for now The…

Measurement app demo in Next.js and react

Measurement app in next.js and react Responsive and works with both dark mode and light…

Python & PHP script for producing Finnish hourly calendar for a single week: Viikkokalenteri

Online web app (PHP, in Finnish) PHP source for web UI (I like single page…

NotesOfFreedom: A Practical Solution for Offline Notion Data Access

Private for now. If you find the prospect of easily accessible, locally stored Notion data…

Qt Widgets Password Dialog with Caps Lock Check

Checkout on GitHub This is a dialog. There’s really nothing very particular about it; just…

App: Merge Qt translation files

Checkout on GitHub Sometimes you can end up in a situation where you have multiple…

Web: sleepCal

A sleeping calendar for circadian rhythm disorder patients (G47.2). Built for a friend in 2012….

Winnie the Pooh personality test

A playful experiment in online advertising; a simple “personality test” . It was featured on…

Smooth animated CSS transitions across pages with View Transitions

This is pretty exciting! You used to only be able to do this on single…

Open Source UX: reviewing Joplin and Ocenaudio

In this post, we’re diving into two compelling open source projects, Joplin (task management) and…

Public service announcement: youtube links have tracking

Public Service Announcement: YouTube links now include an SI source id at the end which…

How to always get maximal debugging output for SQL queries in Qt

I tend to always forget how to use prepared statements, so I generated this little…

Qt: Adjust QTableView height according to contents

In my layout, my dynamically generated QTableViews seem to get resized to only show one…

Getting Twincat XAE to function on MacBook Pro

I finally got sick and tired of all my windows laptops breaking physically one way…

Advice for someone getting started with learning Qt

Spend as much effort as possible in learning to use Qt’s Model View Delegate functionality….

Connecting radio buttons to QSqlTableModel in Qt

You would guess this would be pretty trivial. Guess again. I was looking for a…

Learning and state machines

Guiding learning can be a deceptive thing. Where an expert might think something is simple,…

Future proofing learning in software development

Authors: Olli Savolainen and Daniel Schildt Olli: In my opinion, it is important in the…

Transform your ideas into beautifully crafted experiences.