Nostalgic Design

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Nostalgic Design is written by William C. Kurlinkus and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822986477 (ISBN 10) and 9780822986478 (ISBN 13).

Nostalgic Design presents a rhetorical analysis of twenty-first century nostalgia and a method for designers to create more inclusive technologies. Nostalgia is a form of resistant commemoration that can tell designers what users value about past designs, why they might feel excluded from the present, and what they wish to recover in the future. By examining the nostalgic hacks of several contemporary technical cultures, from female software programmers who knit on the job to anti-vaccination parents, Kurlinkus argues that innovation without tradition will always lead to technical alienation, whereas carefully examining and layering conflicting nostalgic traditions can lead to technological revolution.