"When digital historians draw on tools developed by researchers in other disciplines or by big tech in our own research, we often have to change our goals to accommodate the tools we inherit or borrow. In this talk, I’ll outline a systematic approach to framing digital-history tool-and-methods design as historiography, with a special focus on how thinking historically about tool-and-methods design can help historians shape the future of technology and human  interaction with technology well beyond the walls of the university. Using three digital-tool-and-method case-studies, I’ll outline a systematic process that focuses on writing the history of a digital-history tool design process, which I call “Design Based History Research,” or DBHR. Engaging with a variety of audiences is a key part of DBHR, so we’ll also look at how teaching-and-learning considerations and digital-pedagogy studies can be leveraged in a DBHR tool-design endeavor to develop tools and methods that don’t simply support but actually foster and encourage more rigorous historical research practices. Finally, I’ll use DBHR principles to outline parallels between historical thinking and data literacy that can help digital historians take part in, and influence, broader data-literacy practices at the intersection of technological and humanistic considerations."