SKADIS Pegboard / IKEA
The SKADIS is a wall-mounted pegboard and, more to the point, an ecosystem. The perforated board, made in steel and wood-effect versions, accepts a proprietary range of hooks, trays, containers, clips and ledges that hook into the holes and lock in place, rather than balancing on pegs pushed into a board. That locking action is the key engineering decision: accessories cannot be knocked out by accident, at minimal manufacturing cost. The result turns a flat wall into dense, reconfigurable storage with no fixed commitment: any accessory repositions in seconds, tool-free, as a workflow changes. The board plus its accessory range is what makes it useful, and that is also its limitation. It is a system you buy into, which works as long as the pieces keep coming.
Design intent
- +Accessories lock into the board rather than resting on pegs, so they cannot be displaced by accident, a small engineering decision that buys real reliability.
- +Selling the board with an accessory ecosystem lets the storage evolve with changing needs without replacing the board itself.
Trade-offs
- -The proprietary fitting commits you to the SKADIS range; third-party parts need adapters, and the flexibility depends on IKEA continuing to make compatible accessories.
- -A fully loaded board gets visually dense fast, and needs discipline to stay organised rather than becoming a wall of things with no fixed home.
The SKADIS is a wall-mounted pegboard and, more to the point, an ecosystem. The perforated board, made in steel and wood-effect versions, accepts a proprietary range of hooks, trays, containers, clips and ledges that hook into the holes and lock in place, rather than balancing on pegs pushed into a board. That locking action is the key engineering decision: accessories cannot be knocked out by accident, at minimal manufacturing cost. The result turns a flat wall into dense, reconfigurable storage with no fixed commitment: any accessory repositions in seconds, tool-free, as a workflow changes. The board plus its accessory range is what makes it useful, and that is also its limitation. It is a system you buy into, which works as long as the pieces keep coming.
Design intent
- +Accessories lock into the board rather than resting on pegs, so they cannot be displaced by accident, a small engineering decision that buys real reliability.
- +Selling the board with an accessory ecosystem lets the storage evolve with changing needs without replacing the board itself.
Trade-offs
- -The proprietary fitting commits you to the SKADIS range; third-party parts need adapters, and the flexibility depends on IKEA continuing to make compatible accessories.
- -A fully loaded board gets visually dense fast, and needs discipline to stay organised rather than becoming a wall of things with no fixed home.
