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Hi, I’m Tino. I make instruments, interfaces and simulations in Harare.
I’m a design engineer. xoboid is my studio: where I make software meant to be played with rather than only used, working across design and engineering at once, from the system underneath to the surface you touch.
Outside the work I read and I listen, and both feed it. What is on the stereo is below, as it is today, with the subjects the work keeps returning to.
- Based
- Harare, Zimbabwe
- Now
- AI Engineer, Econet
- Studio
- Design engineer & creative director, xoboid
- Before
- Member of Technical Staff, 3degrees
- Elsewhere
- githubxlinkedinxoboidd@gmail.com
Listening リスニング
Interests インタレスト
- AI interfaces
- Agents
- Generative art
- Creative coding
- Simulation
- Emergence
- Sound & synthesis
- Instruments
- Interaction design
- Design systems
- Typography
- Motion
Values バリュー
- Attentionアテンション
Every made thing is a small refusal of the quiet: proof that someone paid attention long enough for the noise to become a shape.
- Partnershipパートナーシップ
The best tools will be partners, not replacements: machines that think a little so we can feel a lot. The hand gets a longer reach, and the mind keeps the last word.
- Curiosityキュリオシティ
Most of what the studio makes starts as a question with no return address, half signal and half static. The work is decoding signals from void.
- Maマ
Air is the primary material. Weight sits against one edge and the void opens opposite it. Ship fewer things than feel done.
- Mono no awareモノノアワレ
Things pass, and the work knows it. It is made in the open, unfinished and exposed, and it changes as the studio learns.
Something to make? Write to the studio ↗
Written in October 2026, and it will change.