Your Design Team — Without the Hiring, Managing, or Overhead
Masterly becomes your external design department. Get a full team — designer, project manager, design lead — for less than one in-house hire. Scale up or down as needed. No long-term lock-in.
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We've partnered with 50+ companies across fintech, AI, SaaS and healthcare
About the Service
Service
Hiring designers is expensive, slow, and risky. Finding good talent takes months. Onboarding takes more months. Then they leave, and you start over.
With Team Extension, Masterly becomes your design team. You get dedicated access to experienced designers, a project manager who keeps things moving, and a design lead for quality oversight — all without job posts, interviews, or HR headaches.
Work with us like you would an internal team: assign tasks, iterate in Slack, hop on calls when needed. But with the flexibility to scale hours up for big pushes or down during quiet periods. No severance, no bench time, no overhead.
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Timeline
Minimum 1 month commitment, then flexible ongoing
Ideal for
Startups without in-house design capacity
Product teams needing ongoing design support
Companies scaling faster than they can hire
Teams with fluctuating design workload
Founders who want to focus on product, not managing designers
Companies testing demand before committing to full-time hires
Deliverables
Dedicated design team access
Weekly sync calls
Slack communication channel
Task tracking in your tools or ours
All standard design deliverables (UI, UX, wireframes, prototypes, handoffs)
Design system maintenance
Async updates and progress reports
Our Proven
Workflow
We integrate with your team like an internal department, not an outside agency.
Kickoff & Setup
Backlog Planning
Design Sprints
Review & Iteration
Handoff & QA
Ongoing Optimization
Step 1
Kickoff & Setup
We onboard to your product, brand, tools, and workflows. We set up a shared Slack channel, get access to Figma files, and align on communication cadence. By week’s end, we’re ready to take tasks.
Step 2
Backlog Planning
In weekly syncs, we review priorities together. You bring the backlog — features, fixes, explorations — and we help estimate effort and sequence work. You stay in control of what gets designed.
Step 3
Design Sprints
We work through tasks in focused sprints. You’ll see progress async in Slack and Figma. Questions get answered quickly. No waiting weeks for a “big reveal.”
Step 4
Review & Iteration
We share work early and iterate based on your feedback. Rounds of revision are built into the process — we’re not counting changes, we’re getting it right.
Step 5
Handoff & QA
Completed designs get full developer handoff — specs, assets, interaction notes. We stay available during implementation to answer questions and review builds.
Step 6
Ongoing Optimization
As your product evolves, so does design. We maintain your design system, update components, and keep everything consistent as you ship new features.
Discover
the Causes and Solutions
Every growth gap has a root cause.
We uncover it and solve it with design.
Projects That Speak for Themselves
We craft digital products that not only look stunning but also deliver measurable business growth. Explore our success stories and see how we transform ideas into market-leading solutions.
What We Design
Ad Hoc Requests
The random stuff that always comes up — pitch deck polish, investor updates, partnership materials. One team handles it all.
Developer Support
Answer implementation questions, review builds, provide missing specs. We stay involved through development, not just handoff.
Prototypes & Testing
Quick prototypes for user testing, stakeholder demos, or investor presentations. Fast turnaround when you need to validate ideas.
Design System Maintenance
Keep your component library current. New patterns, updated components, documentation as your product grows.
Marketing & Growth Assets
Landing pages, campaign assets, email designs, social graphics. Support your marketing team with on-demand design.
Ongoing Product Design
Continuous UI/UX work — new features, improvements, iterations. We become the design arm of your product team.
Why Partnering With Us Drives Better Results
We combine expertise, creativity, and a results-driven mindset to deliver exceptional digital experiences. From strategy to execution, our team ensures every project meets the highest standards and drives real impact for your business.
Full team, not just a freelancer
You get designer + project manager + design lead. Execution, coordination, and quality control — all included.
Deeply embedded
We learn your product, brand, and users over time. No re-onboarding every project. Institutional knowledge builds.
Flexible hours
Time & materials means you pay for what you use. Big month? Scale up. Quiet month? Scale down. No wasted budget.
Self-managing
Our PM runs the design workflow. You set priorities, we handle the rest. Less management overhead for you.
Startup speed
We’re used to fast-moving teams. Quick iterations, async communication, no bureaucracy. We match your pace.
No lock-in
Minimum one month, then flexible. If it’s not working, you can stop. We stay because we deliver, not because of contracts.
What our
partners say
Partnering with Masterly was seamless from start to finish. Their design precision and creative thinking went beyond what we imagined. The team was responsive, strategic, and genuinely invested in our vision. The final result speaks for itself — if you're looking to level up your brand with sharp, business-minded design, Masterly is the team to call.
Masterly is incredible all around. Talented, kind, fast, and always up for new challenges.
When vetting potential design partners for our Web3 project, our team wanted to align with forward-thinking designers that could help us manifest our product vision in a creative, but user-friendly way. We found this in Vlad and the Masterly team.
Masterly has been an absolute pleasure to work with! Their dedication, hard work, and exceptional design skills have truly elevated our project. The UI/UX designs they delivered were not only creative and user-friendly but also completed on time, which is always a huge plus. Their attention to detail and ability to bring our vision to life exceeded expectations. I highly recommend Masterly to anyone looking for a talented and reliable designers. Looking forward to working together again in the future!
I really enjoyed working with Vlad and his team. Very professional, and they over-delivered on the output.
Vlad and his team do amazing work. I can't recommend them more as they did exceptional work and handled feedback very well!
Awarded by the world’s most respected design competitions
Frequently Asked Questions
Get a design team without the hiring headache
Let’s talk about your design needs and how Masterly can become your external design department.
We’ll get back to you as soon as possible!
