User:LilyTraub/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 to evaluate Design Studies because I value artistic expression and am interested in design. I believe Design studies matters because it is important to evaluate the meaning of the designs around us and learn the history of where these styles came from. Although, my preliminary impression of this article was that it covered an extensive amount of material that I would not normally associate with the topic of design studies. The article discusses important figures in this area all the way to the ethics and different research methods of design studies, all of which I found to be very informative and interesting.

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.)

I thought that all of the information in the article was informative and unique, but it did range from a wide variety of topics. I do, however, feel that the article has a very neutral depiction of what design studies is. Specifically, the article discusses how design ethics can be beneficial but also is not always positive. Moreover, when discussing Clive Dilnot's essay, the page simply says what it is about but does not actually describe what these topics are; this is a view I feel to be underrepresented and under established.

Additionally, the links that are provided in the citations work and support the claims made in the wikipedia article. The sources provided are all from academic journals and highly regarded articles, but some are from over 30 years ago, meaning some of the information may be out of date.