Designed by yours truly and one of the workers (5)
I believe the answer is:
meant
'designed' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'yours truly and one of the workers' is the wordplay.
'yours truly' becomes 'me'.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'one of the workers' becomes 'ant' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'me'+'ant'='MEANT'
'by' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for meant that I've seen before include "Deliberate" , "planned" , "Aimed" , "proposed" , "designed" .)