2026 — Now
Lead Product Designer
iKhokha
Leading and coordinating design teams toward user-centred outcomes — and pioneering sustainable, reliable AI practice across the team.
Hi, I’m Tawanda.
Designer + builder.
I lead design teams toward user-centred outcomes — and pioneer sustainable, reliable ways for designers to work with AI. Currently at iKhokha.
iKhokha · MTN · Kandua · Civicus · Agile Routes · University of Pretoria · Wits
The journey — product design
From CS foundations to leading design.
01 / 08
Mar — May 2026
Interim Head of Design
iKhokha
Stepped up to steer the design function — strategy, rituals and team direction during the transition.
2022 — 2026
Product Designer
iKhokha
Researching, designing and testing dashboard features that empower merchants to grow — and keeping design consistent across teams.
2022
Senior UX Designer
HELM
Made the Business Self-Service Portal genuinely usable inside a cross-functional team — aligned to design principles, built to deliver value.
2020 — 2021
Service Designer
HELM
Service design across the business self-service journeys — mapping the end-to-end experience.
2020
UX Designer
Civicus
17 cross-country interviews → personas → a co-created member communications platform built around real needs.
2018 — 2020
UX Designer
Kandua
Solo-designed “Standard Services” — intuitive UIs and seamless flows for both customers and providers.
2015 — 2017
BSc Computer Science
University
Where the building started — computer-science foundations that still shape how I prototype today.
Selected work
About
Day to day, I lead and coordinate design teams to deliver user-centred outcomes — and build the sustainable, reliable AI practices the team runs on.
Six years across fintech, telecoms and marketplaces. Still hands-on when it counts — I prototype in code when Figma starts lying.
Off the clock, I’m a tinkerer. I build small tools for my own problems — it keeps me close to the craft, and honest about what AI can actually do.
Toolkit — working with AI
The kit I reach for — and the practices I bring to a team learning to work with AI, sustainably.
Off hours — the workbench
Small tools for real problems.
01 / 06
01Design AI Weekly
Shipping weeklyA weekly newsletter on design & AI — what I’m reading, building and stealing each week.
Writing · Newsletter ↗
02Phrase Duel
In daily useA language-learning app built for two — my wife and I, learning head to head.
AI · Learning ↗
03E-commerce Price Tracker
LiveA price tracker for things I actually want to buy — it tells me when to pull the trigger.
Automation · Scraping ↗
04Vitamin M
Live with my groupA stokvel tracker — contributions, payout order, and who’s getting paid this month.
Fintech · Community ↗
05Vanta Studio
OpenMy independent design agency — brand, product and AI prototyping for small teams.
Studio · Agency ↗
06Mutambwe Meals
LiveA meal-planning agent that took on a front end — weekly plans, quietly automated.
AI agent ↗
always building.
ask me what’s next ↗
ask me what’s next ↗
Contact
tmutambwe@gmail.com