Tuki: Dominic Ill
For many parents with toddlers, a major priority is spending time with them. However, that requires them being able to see you first. With a markedly shorter stature than their parents, many young children spend the beginnings of their lives looking upwards. To mitigate this issue, many companies sell stepstools and high chairs to bring small kids up to countertop level. Baking sessions with a little “helper” won’t be very fun for them if they can’t even reach the cookiecutters.
Seeing an opening for improvement, Dominic Ill and his Friend Simon Thut began working on a better solution. From a garage in Switzerland, they started a company that constructs wooden hybrid stepstools with modular additions for different stages of a child’s development.
A Tuki kit is impressively simple; with no sharp edges ore fragile ornamentation, it’s built to be extremely safe for toddlers. Additionally, its guardrails protect those still learning how to balance from tipping overboard.
Not only is the design simple, it also allows for multiple uses. With various extra kits, a Tuki frame can be converted into an easel or even an indoor slide. Because of its simple, sturdy construction, a Tuki tower can be passed down between multiple children and remain functional.
If you can reinvent the stepstool, then you can reinvent just about anything. That is what Dominic Ill has proved, through Tuki. Even the most mundane object has an adjacent possible; all it takes is an idea and some lumber.
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I think this idea is great and puts a cool spin on the classic highchair. I like that this entrepreneur saw a basic area of innovation and decided to take it and make it his own. The highchair has been around for years, but this person took it and decided to improve it for parents and the young users.