Writing
Everything Micah Boswell has published under his own name, in one place: essays on his portfolio site, articles on LinkedIn since 2016, answers on Quora since 2011, and twelve poems.
Wipe the glass. Light the sign.
Poems
Twelve poems, each set over one of his photographs, and Dreams in his own voice, from a 2017 reading.
- Dreams read by Micah Boswell
- Explosions, Gunshots
- Simpler in Lima
- Miguel Dasso
- Growing Apart
- Design
- Kabala meets 16th Century Spanish
- We've Forgotten
- One Night
- Men's Room Sonata in Tiled Minor
- Fog
- To be this old
Also in the writing corpus on Hugging Face, and Dreams on Medium: Lima and Dallas, aging, faith, politics, humor.
Essays at conscious-shell.com
The designer decides what happens at the moment a person is asked to accept what the machine just did. Where the source shows. What a wrong answer costs. Whether there is an undo. The second question, after the first wrong answer, is the whole job.
No. Three days of edge logs across four sites: 977 AI agents, 853 search crawlers, and every one of them arrived through robots.txt and sitemap.xml. What AEO actually changes, what llms.txt is worth, and what happened when three sites became MCP servers.
He finished his last class at Hardin-Simmons in 1992 and walked the stage in December 2025. Thirty-three years, most of them his own pride.
Articles on LinkedIn
Published on LinkedIn between 2016 and 2026. The method pieces came out of a weekly series he wrote for working designers.
- My Experience Building an App with AI
- UX and Critical Thinking
- Who Are Your Organization's Unsung Heroes?
- UX Design, Strategy and Sustainability
- UX Method of the Week: Journey Mapping
- UX Method of the Week: Culture Mapping
- UX Method of the Week: Clearing the Mind of Cognitive Disruptions
Also on LinkedIn, listed on his articles page:
- The Skills That Still Matter
- The Human Bug in AI: why critical thinking is the new unicorn skill
- Are we building faster horses with AI?
- Beyond the Button: notes on work, people, and getting it wrong
- More Human Than Human
- Color Audit: the app a career built
- Smackintosh and Synner
Answers on Quora
Since January 2011: more than 120 answers and 400,000 content views on his Quora profile. The topics he answers most are user experience design, user interfaces, music, New Wave, and Dallas. He runs two Quora Spaces: eCommerce UX and Media Anthropology.