Now
What Micah Boswell is working on. A now page, in the tradition of nownownow.com: updated when things change, not on a schedule.
Wipe the glass. Light the sign.
At work
Lead Product Designer at AT&T, on the tools that run on-premise and cloud network infrastructure. NetBond Advanced, whose design he led, is now live; engineering used his coded prototype as the visual reference for what to build. The current work is an agentic model for network operations, prototypes of AI agents across the lifecycle from provisioning through decommissioning, and the enterprise pilot that brought AI tools into the design organization. The design question he keeps coming back to: what a person is asked to accept at the moment the machine has just acted, and what the second question is after the first wrong answer.
On the side
Four small sites, each built because making something is how he learns a subject. None of them is a business.
- Pen Paper & Ink a fountain-pen almanac: every specimen measured by hand, dry times, pairings, and an MCP server so assistants can read the data directly
- GPSail a SailGP companion: Season 6 standings, schedule, and F50 explainers, in English and Arabic
- Family Roots Center a genealogy tool: GEDCOM import, ten visualizations, living-person redaction
- conscious_shell the portfolio, online since 2000, where the case studies and essays live
Writing
Essays on designing for AI and on search in the age of answer engines, listed under Writing. The most recent: Is AI replacing SEO?
Mentoring
One-on-one with designers moving into senior roles, through Designlab and ADPList. Forty-seven so far. How to book.
Where
Dallas, Texas. Downtown. Photographing it at night when the streets are wet, for Unsplash, where the photographs have passed 53.4 million views. The photography page.