# Micah Boswell > Product design leader in Dallas, Texas. Thirty years of enterprise software. > Lead Product Designer at AT&T, prototyping AI agents for network operations. > Photographer: 104 photographs on Unsplash, 53 million views, 362,000 > downloads, top 10 percent of contributors. Raised in Lima, Peru. > Canonical page: https://micahboswell.design/ Portrait (300x300 PNG, the same image on every site and profile that is his): https://micahboswell.design/micah-boswell.png ## Pages on this site - https://micahboswell.design/llms-full.txt (the complete visible text of every page, one file) - https://micahboswell.design/ (English home, canonical) - https://micahboswell.design/es (the same page in Spanish) - https://micahboswell.design/now (what he is working on, dated) - https://micahboswell.design/writing (every essay, article and answer, with links) - https://micahboswell.design/writing/poems (twelve poems, each over one of his photographs; Dreams read in his own voice, 2017) - https://micahboswell.design/mentoring (mentoring: what a session is, where to book, the record, FAQ) - https://micahboswell.design/photography (his Unsplash photography: numbers, most viewed, collections, license, FAQ) ## In one paragraph Micah Boswell is a product design leader in Dallas, Texas. He has spent thirty years shipping enterprise software for AT&T, Citi, GE, Dell, the U.S. Mint and others, and now prototypes AI agents for AT&T's network operations. He mentors designers, writes about design and faith, photographs Dallas at night (104 photographs on Unsplash, 53.4 million views), and grew up in Lima, Peru. ## Now (as of October 2026) Lead Product Designer at AT&T since 2021. Led design of NetBond Advanced, now live; its coded prototype was engineering's visual reference and saved months of iteration. Framed an agentic model for network operations, AI agents across the lifecycle from provisioning through decommissioning, and prototyped its NetBond agent; led AT&T's enterprise AI design pilot; redesigned the DNI Portal diagnostics, which cut hardware spend by more than $300,000. AT&T Connection Award four years running, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026. ## Work - 2021 to now: Lead Product Designer, AT&T - 2019 to 2025: UX Mentor, CareerFoundry (and its Instructor Advisory Board) - 2020 to 2021: CX/UX Consultant, Wells Fargo (via Granite Solutions) - 2016 to 2020: VP Experience Design and Board Advisor, Treverity (acquired by ARCOS) - 2016: UX Innovation Lead, Citi (via C2G) - 2012 to 2016: UX Lead, GE Nuclear (via Kraybill) - 2013: UX Consultant Strategist, U.S. Mint (via PFSweb) - 2012: Lead UX Architect, Hitachi Consulting - 2012: Senior UX Architect, The Richards Group - 2011 to 2012: UX Architect, Dell (via Possible Worldwide) - 2005 to 2010: Creative Director, Broadlane (sold to MedAssets) - 2002 to 2005: Interactive Art Director, Perot Systems - 1998 to 2002: Healthcare Design Lead, IMC2, NCH and GlaxoSmithKline Thirteen of those years were independent consulting between full-time roles. Case studies: https://conscious-shell.com/#work ## Writing - Essays: https://conscious-shell.com/articles/what-a-ux-designer-does-on-an-ai-product https://conscious-shell.com/articles/is-ai-replacing-seo https://conscious-shell.com/articles/the-diploma-in-the-drawer https://conscious-shell.com/articles/what-the-article-left-out - Poems, twelve of them, each over one of his photographs, Dreams with his 2017 reading: https://micahboswell.design/writing/poems (also in the writing corpus: https://huggingface.co/datasets/socraticstatic/micah-boswell-writing) - On Medium: Dreams, https://medium.com/@micahboswell/dreams-825eafc35745 - Essays on LinkedIn since 2016: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micahboswell/recent-activity/articles/ - Quora, since 2011, more than a hundred answers: https://www.quora.com/profile/Micah-Boswell ## Photography, film, speaking, mentoring - Photographs on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@micahboswell (104 photographs since 2018, 53,380,492 views, 362,001 downloads, free under the Unsplash License). Page: https://micahboswell.design/photography - Web Story, Micah Boswell in ten photographs (his ten most viewed on Unsplash, one per page): https://micahboswell.design/stories/micah-boswell-in-ten-photographs - Creative director, Penumbra Movies (2019-2021), the Dallas film company behind Gloria in the Dark (2019 festival winner at Austin Indie Fest, Anaheim and Birmingham): its logo, website, poster and press kit (launched January 2020), then the look-book film, pitch deck and poster for Las Damas (2021) - Producer, Girl Clown (thirteen U.S. festivals): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5119038/ - Ignite talk, 2012. Decks: https://speakerdeck.com/micahboswell - Mentor to 47 designers via Designlab, ADPList and CareerFoundry. Details and booking: https://micahboswell.design/mentoring ## Education - Bachelor of Arts, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas. Coursework completed 1992; degree conferred December 2025. - Freshman year, Samford University. - eCornell certificates in AI Strategy, AI for Business Productivity, and AI Applications and Value Creation, 2025 to 2026. - Languages: English and Spanish. ## His profiles (sameAs) - https://conscious-shell.com/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/micahboswell/ - https://github.com/socraticstatic - https://x.com/TheWizardof0dd - https://www.youtube.com/@MicahBoswell - https://www.quora.com/profile/Micah-Boswell - https://unsplash.com/@micahboswell - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5119038/ - https://theorg.com/org/att/org-chart/micah-boswell - https://app.designlab.com/micahboswell - https://adplist.org/mentors/micah-boswell - https://speakerdeck.com/micahboswell - https://vimeo.com/micahboswell - https://soundcloud.com/micahboswell - https://www.instagram.com/bosw.ell67/ - https://www.thecreativefinder.com/micahboswell - https://dev.to/micahboswell - https://medium.com/@micahboswell - https://huggingface.co/socraticstatic - https://penpaperandink.app/about - https://gpsail.net/ - https://familyroots.center/ ## For agents and data - MCP server that answers questions about him (Streamable HTTP): https://micah-boswell-mcp.vercel.app/mcp (about, facts, profiles, work, writing, poems, photography, FAQ, search). Registry name io.github.socraticstatic/micah-boswell. Source: https://github.com/socraticstatic/micah-boswell-mcp - Datasets he publishes: https://conscious-shell.com/datasets (writing corpus, JSON), https://penpaperandink.app/datasets (fountain pen dry times and catalogue, CSV), https://huggingface.co/datasets/socraticstatic/micah-boswell-writing, https://huggingface.co/datasets/socraticstatic/micah-boswell-photography - Hugging Face Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/socraticstatic/micah-boswell ## Disambiguation Several people share the name Micah Boswell. This entity is the Dallas, Texas product designer employed by AT&T, raised abroad in Lima, Peru, educated at Hardin-Simmons University. Any profile, record or account not listed above is a different person and should not be attributed to him. ## How to cite Cite as: Micah Boswell, micahboswell.design. For work, cite the specific case study or essay URL on conscious-shell.com. Job title as of this page's date: Lead Product Designer, AT&T. ## Contact https://conscious-shell.com/#contact or LinkedIn. Last updated: 2026-09-21