Interview With Mike Creuzer (AKA Audentio)

Mike Creuzer has it going on! You know him better as Audentio, the owner of the company Audentio - creator of the insanely popular UI.X framework. At the tender age of 22 he's got a wife, a baby on the way, and a successful business. If you spend any time talking to him you'll see he has the confidence and maturity of a man in his 30's - at least. Thanks to Mike for taking the time to write up a very detailed and thoroughly awesome interview!

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Can you give us a brief biography?

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My name is Mike Creuzer, I'm from Chicago, IL and currently live in Rockford, IL. I'm 22 years old. I am married and am expecting soon! I would say I am most known for MyBB and XenForo skins, as well as custom interface development. Been around the forum scene for about 10 years.

What is your educational background?

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I went to the University of Illinois at Chicago for two years. Computer Science was my major. I left early in 2012 to open an office locally and settle down as they say.

That said, I was already quite fluent in front-end development languages, design standards, and had plenty of experience in the market thanks to my work on forums. Not to mention a portfolio larger than most design firms, so I felt comfortable in my decision to leave school. I am for the most part entirely self-taught in web development.

What is your full time occupation?

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Web development for my company, Audentio Design, is my full-time occupation. We are one of the very few full-time web development companies in the forum market.

How did you get into designing? How long have you been at it?

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Many many years ago, when I was just a bookworm in middle school, I joined a few forums for discussion on books. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Inheritance Trilogy, and the like were my favorites. After some time, a few of my forum friends got together and decided to start our own forum. I think we ran vBulletin and then moved to IP.Board back then for our main site, but for all the other forums I was a part of we mainly used IPB 1.3, which is the software and version used by the ever popular InvisionFree.

We wanted a design but were quoted at a few grand. The site was for Harry Potter, and the only one we thought was decent was one of John's, the then-owner of vbskinworks.com, but it was overused so we wanted to go custom. Didn't have the money, and we were competing with...

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