In this episode, I'm chatting with Cathi Bosco. Cathi is the creative genius that powers her web studio in Madison CT USA.

We're talking all about collaboration on projects, lessons learned and some of our favorite design elements. She shares her industry knowledge experience to help us forge a way forward in this ever changing digital age.

Let's get started.

Meet Cathi Bosco
Creative Director, Digital Consultant, Web Designer, Artist, Illustrator, Children's Book Author, trail runner, dog lover & free thinker...

My specialty is creating beautiful and cohesive web presence packages for clients that can convert audiences and present content elegantly (think modern and clean presentation). Our sites are built on The Genesis Framework and they function exceptionally well for a wide range of programs, communities, organizations and companies.

If you have an unusual challenge – we are all ears… tell us about your project and ideas! We don’t take on each and every proposal that comes along, but if we feel we can add value to your plans or programs, we’ll gladly get you a quote and get to work for you.
I also think CSS transitions and CSS + SVG animations are very effective slightly below the surface. Designed to feed the human reward system. Always leaving the end user ‘in control’ of the navigation but royally rewarded aesthetically. This is for upper-end projects and can also help to differentiate sites from low-end, non-custom work… when done well. We all love this stuff… transitions and animations that are so subtle they beautifully and intriguingly enhance end user experiences. Along with collaboration, they are key to forward momentum for Genesis developers and designers

Show Notes
Bio Page: About Cathi
Company site: CandDStudios.com
Twitter link: @bethebreeze
A Few Valuable Links & Resources :

Sara Soudein https://sarasoueidan.com/
Code Drops http://tympanus.net/codrops/ &
for easy reference: http://tympanus.net/codrops/css_reference/
CodePen http://codepen.io/
A Book Apart Series: Chris Coyier Practical SVG
Creative Market https://creativemarket.com/
Hot Jar https://www.hotjar.com
StudioPress http://www.studiopress.com/
InVision https://www.invisionapp.com/
Fontastic http://fontastic.me/
Frontify https://frontify.com/
CSS-Tricks https://css-tricks.com/
Rafal Tomal http://rafaltomal.com/
Typespiration http://typespiration.com/

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Jackie:
Hey everybody, it's Jackie D'Elia with Rethink.fm with another episode for you, and today I have my guest Cathi Bosco with C&D studios. Hi Cathi.


Cathi:
Good morning. Good morning.


Jackie:
Good morning to you. Thank you very much for joining me. I'm really excited to be able to chat with you today.


Cathi:
Well, it's my pleasure. I'm pretty excited to be talking about front-end design more, and rethinking the way things are being done, so I love it.


Jackie:
Awesome. Well for folks who don't know you, what do you do?


Cathi:
Well, I run a creative design studio here. I'm in Madison, Connecticut, and I've been self-employed, freelancing, doing this work for, gosh, almost 20 years now. I've sort of ridden the digital evolution. I started analog as an illustrator,