User:Jakapoor/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Design studies

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I have no idea what "design studies" is and I was curious to learn more about it. My initial assessment is its an overly nuanced concept for describing something rather simple. I like to refer to this process as "philosophizing the mundane." All joking aside design is incredibly important in terms of how we perceive and navigate through our world, how we interpret things, and how things are made the way they are and why.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Content

I think that overall a very comprehensive article. It covers most of the bases. It's fairly up to date in terms of its content and sources. The only thing I would like to see is if they could implement information regarding how the design choices of societies pre-20th century has influenced our current understanding and application of design. I understand the actual study of design is relatively new concept in terms of academia, but that doesn't mean it wasn't being investigated by previous generations.

Tone

I don't see anything overly disconcerting about the tone in which this article is written in. Like I said before I only wish more was provided in terms of offering a pre-20th century perspective on this topic.

Sources

Pretty much every statement is cited and links to reputable, diverse and neutral sources.

Talk

One of the major criticisms on the "Talk" page falls very much in line with my take on the article. There's some question to as to whether the article has a bit of Western bias. There is not a lot of discussion of other countries or cultures.