On-demand, fractional design and strategy partner you can subscribe to.
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Hello, I’m Ufuk - “The One” of Agency of One.
I am a multi-disciplinary designer, and strategic thinker with over a decade of experience in NYC who thrives on crafting emotionally connecting moments. My past work allowed me to do that through physical products, environments, digital experiences, or future concepts for brands like Google, Marriott International, Chase Bank, Coca-Cola, and Comcast.
With Agency of One, I extend my creative and strategic skills to a select number of clients for a fixed monthly fee. Subscribe to a portion of my time as an external support or extension of your team with flexibility to pause, resume or cancel as your design needs change. So, instead of counting hours, we're measuring outcomes and your satisfaction. Oh, and I have a network of top creative talents if we need it.
Interested? Let’s have a chat.
A new take on
the design process.
High-quality multidisciplinary design support without the hassle of recruiting, onboarding or unnecessarily paying for full-time support as your design needs change. Pause, resume, or cancel anytime.
Flexible
Whether you choose the Design as a Subscription or Design on Demand, the exact process, cost and outcomes are detailed out upfront so you can have peace of mind. Instead of counting hours, we only measure outcome and satisfaction.
Output driven
The brief, feedback, approval and file sharing all through your personal portal. You deal directly with our founder resulting in minimal administrative work, and maximum creative output.
Streamlined
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Sample projects and brands from Ufuk’s past work individually or in different teams.
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Experienced fractional design & strategy partner for a fixed monthly fee. (Limited availability.)
$7450
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Design & strategy skills that helped some of the top global brands at your fingertips, as an external partner or extension of your team.
Process tracking, feedback and collaboration, approvals, meeting setup, and subscription requests via your personal portal.
Your needs changed? No problem. Pause, cancel, or resume at any time.
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Organizations with inconsistent design needs and want peace of mind knowing they have consistent high-quality support when they need it.
Small companies who probably don't need (or are not ready) to hire a full-time design staff.
Teams in between hires, or ones that need support during a temporary leave.
Companies, brands, teams, leaders who frequently need high-quality creative support across design disciplines but spend too much time recruiting and onboarding freelancers or don’t have the budget to hire a full-time employee or an agency.
Teams that want an additional fractional team member with fresh insights into technology and trends, or a fresh perspective on problems they are solving.
Startups, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs working on building new businesses or initiatives who could use a strategic creative partner they can rely on.
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1) You subscribe to us as a fractional design and strategy partner for a fraction of the overhead of hiring somebody with the same level of experience.
2) We set up a kick-off workshop to go over details and co-create a working structure to make sure you get the most out of our partnership.
3) Through your personal portal, you can track progress, review designs, give feedback, set up a meeting, or approve deliverables.
4) One task is prioritized at any given moment. We move on to the next once that’s approved, or you prioritize another task.
5) Pause, resume, or cancel at any time. Get a refund for the unused part of the month if you cancel.
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Personalized kick-off workshop, and progress meetings as necessary.
Unlimited design tasks within the services we offer.
Unlimited feedback rounds per task.
Consultation with a Subject Matter Expert (SME) as needed.
All the artwork, production or reference files, presentations, and Intellectual Property created.
*** If there is an occasion when a project requires services outside of our scope or has an unusually tight deadline and you would like to expedite, we will present you with a quote for collaboration with our network of creatives on top of their fields.
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Services
I love solving problems for humans and businesses across multiple disciplines. Below is a list of artifacts I’ve created for top global brands.
Design Research
Landscape and trend reports
Opportunity areas
Executive and pitch decks
Design thinking workshops
Design Strategy
Design moodboards
Concept sketches
2D/3D visualization
Signature moments
Concept deck
Concept Development
Experience Design
UX/UI design
User personas & journeys
User flows
Wireframes
Low & high fidelity prototypes
Environmental design
Spatial experience
Product design
Packaging
Prototyping
Physical Design
Sample Outputs
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What can I do for you? And what can they help you do?
** Reference image from a past project in collaboration with others.
Design Research & Strategy
(Landscape and Opportunity Areas)
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Getting more insight into a problem, its landscape, industry analogs, related technology and trends, user needs, and opportunity areas are crucial steps to any design process.
Having done this for many years helping some of the top brands, I can help you have a clear understanding of the problem and the opportunities, which will inform design and business decisions throughout the entire process.
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Some scenarios the Design and Trend Research Deck would come in handy for:
Creating groundwork for new business and design solutions to be developed against.
Assessment for desirability, feasibility and viability of a potential initiative.
Getting buy-in from partners and stakeholders.
Gaining insights on the latest technology and trends for more informed strategic decisions.
Supporting design teams to make more informed decisions about user mindsets, needs, and goals.
Creating a stronger brief for a project RFP or kick-off.
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Initial onboarding questionnaire that will help us understand the project and your needs.
Align on a draft brief describing the goals and methodology.
Checkpoints along the way to ensure the process continues in line with the initial goals.
Consultation with an SME as necessary.
A beautiful branded deck that will have the research findings and synthesis - outlining consumer, technology, trends insights, and opportunities that align with the brief.
** Reference image from a past project in collaboration with others.
Concept Development
(incl. Design & Strategy Research)
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A set of product, service, or experience solutions to improve consumer satisfaction, elevate the brand image and/or create new business or revenue opportunities. Concepts are developed to answer opportunity areas and user needs uncovered by the Design and Trend Research, as well as your business goals.
They are communicated through visuals (sketches, renders, or collages) that depict the use cases, hero journeys, and user interactions, accompanied by annotations for supporting evidence that are backed by the research.
Some concepts I developed are either realized or on their way to realization by the largest hotel company in the world, the largest beverage brand in the world, and the largest financial institution in the world.
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Some scenarios the Concept Deck would come in handy for:
Envisioning and assessing future solutions that can enhance user experience, improve brand recognition and create new business opportunities.
Secure funding by helping executives and investors better visualize a potential future scenario.
Spark conversations among creative and business partners and stakeholders about future-forward solutions backed by research.
Early-stage consumer feedback.
Lay groundwork for a new product, service, or experience to be fully developed.
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(In addition to everything included in Design and Trend Research)
Upto 5 concepts, each paired with corresponding opportunity areas, user needs, and trends they are addressing.
Stakeholer interviews or collaboration workshop to get insight on the current state and the goals.
Consultation with SME’s as necessary.
Hero journeys and/or signature moments for each concept.
A beautiful, branded executive deck that ties all the research and visuals together in a compelling and impactful way.
Experience Design
(UX & UI)
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Assessing behaviors, functional and emotional needs, and pain points of your brand’s target audience, and designing digital and physical interaction points to create meaningful moments. Whether it is a new product or improvements on an existing one, we can work with your brief, or help you create one by identifying opportunity areas and user needs.
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Create user experiences at the intersection of functionality, aesthetics, and human feelings.
Develop a human-centered, intuitive, and efficient path between current and desired user states.
Empower your brand to help people improve their quality of life.
Create strong consumer connections that lead to user satisfaction and brand loyalty.
Create and test new business and revenue ideas.
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Depending on the medium of the product and scope of the project, deliverables can include:
Design & Trend Report
Executive Concept Deck
User testing & research
Process deliverables for digital products: Sketches, user flows, wireframes, interaction models, clickable prototypes or final design documents.
Not ready for subscription? Let’s talk about getting you exactly what you need.
Physical Design
(Environmental & Product)
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Environments or products that users can interact with in the physical world. They can include digital components as interaction touch points.
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Create tangible brand experience moments.
Create physical mock-ups and prototypes for team alignment and iteration.
Build and test multi-modal, multi-sensory interaction patterns.
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Depending on the medium of the product and scope of the project, deliverables can include:
Design & Trend Report
Concept Deck
User Testing & Research
Process deliverables for physical products may include sketches, renderings, mock-ups, material swatches, production drawings, scale and appearance models, and prototypes.
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FAQ’s
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For starters, flexibility. You will spend a lot of time finding and onboarding the right designer - if they are not already booked. If your needs change and they don’t have enough workload, you will either need to keep paying them or risk losing them to another client. With the monthly plan, you can pause and resume your subscription as often as you need.
Skillset. I offer a multitude of design services that would usually require multiple designers within one agile solution.
Cost. You get a highly experienced design partner without the overhead of hiring a full-time designer or an agency.
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Our founder, Ufuk Keskin, for the most part. Throughout his career, he worked on different design disciplines in corporate, consultancy, and startup settings - including Marriott International and Frog Design.
When a project requires special proficiency on a subject, he consults with some of the best creatives in their field at no cost to you.
He can partner with your team or collaborate with his network of talented creatives when a project calls for.
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Depends on the type of project as it would with any other design process. You submit your ideal deadline for each task. If it is not feasible, we work together to determine what works best.
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How you request design tasks is flexible as long as they all are consolidated on your personal portal. Some common ways clients request designs are through email or directly via Portal, sharing related PDF, Google docs, or wireframes.
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We have very few monthly spots available at a time to ensure consistent top-quality results. Additionally, the whole process is set up to be efficient and outcome-oriented. That means we can spend more time on what will impact the creative output vs busy administrative tasks. If you are able to sign up, that means we are confident we can create excellent results for you.
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It is understandable you may not have enough design work to fill up an entire month. That's where pausing your subscription comes in handy.
Billing cycles are based on 30 day period. Let's say you sign up and use the service for 20 days, and then decide to pause your subscription. This means that the billing cycle will be paused and you'll have 10 days of service remaining to be used anytime in the future.
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You will get a design services invoice through our LLC.
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Any material and/or production costs.
Travel expenses if needed.
Any software or subscription costs outside of what we use.
Other expenses that occur outside of the design services outlined in the descriptions.