Thanks for stopping by. My name is Kirill Grouchnikov and I am a user interface engineer. I have been doing client side development professionally over the last decade or so, in a variety of UI toolkits and libraries that spanned Motif, MFC, VB, Ada, Delphi, Swing and SWT. Recently I joined the Android team at Google.

I have a particular interest in creating polished, responsive and well behaving user-facing applications that help the end users achieve their goals quickly and painlessly. Pushing Pixels is where I write about my own explorations of this area.

In my spare time i work on Trident animation library, Substance look-and-feel and Flamingo component suite. I also have a few projects that are no longer active, but still be of some interest to you. If you wish to support my writing and open source libraries, you're more than welcome to browse my Amazon wish list.

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• Problem solving and innovation
• Trust is hard to build and easy to destroy
• Sun setting down on the core Swing
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• Animations – the big picture
• Your application will be with you momentarily