Discord - Wumpus Beyond Stickers
Goal
Explore and set design guidelines for in-app stickers featuring Discord’s mascot, Wumpus while balancing product values and brand personality to ensure consistency and delight for their users.
Results
Explore and set design guidelines for in-app stickers featuring Discord’s mascot, Wumpus while balancing product values and brand personality to ensure consistency and delight for their users.
Results
The final system delivered a range of expressive, emotionally resonant stickers designed to spark joy ✨ and enhance user interaction.
The Wumpus Beyond sticker pack launched in Discord Nitro in 2021, bringing the design to life at scale.
The Wumpus Beyond sticker pack launched in Discord Nitro in 2021, bringing the design to life at scale.
Role
Designer
Designer
Responsibilities
Concepting
2D + 3D Exploration
Design Guidelines
Animation
Concepting
2D + 3D Exploration
Design Guidelines
Animation
Design Team
Robb Hunter
Design Director
Robb Hunter
Design Director
Timeline
2 Weeks
2 Weeks
Gesture Exploration + 2D Style
Sketched Wumpus’s emotions, gestures, and proportions to define a playful, expressive style; Laying the groundwork for a cohesive sticker system.
Sketched Wumpus’s emotions, gestures, and proportions to define a playful, expressive style; Laying the groundwork for a cohesive sticker system.
3D Exploration
3D models helped explore Wumpus’s form, gestures, and motion - shaping animation direction and visual consistency.
While the final stickers stayed 2D, the 3D work played a key role in defining movement and expression.
3D models helped explore Wumpus’s form, gestures, and motion - shaping animation direction and visual consistency.
While the final stickers stayed 2D, the 3D work played a key role in defining movement and expression.
Color Guide
Built a consistent palette aligning with the brand, optimized for both light and dark mode to ensure clarity and vibrancy across themes.
Built a consistent palette aligning with the brand, optimized for both light and dark mode to ensure clarity and vibrancy across themes.
Animation
Designed frame-by-frame vector animations to define the motion style and guide consistent sticker execution.
Designed frame-by-frame vector animations to define the motion style and guide consistent sticker execution.
Discord Wumpus Beyond
The launch of Wumpus Beyond brought our design vision to life and evolved how users express personality through stickers.
It was rewarding to know I helped design something people use daily to connect and express themselves in meaningful, playful ways with their communities.
The launch of Wumpus Beyond brought our design vision to life and evolved how users express personality through stickers.
It was rewarding to know I helped design something people use daily to connect and express themselves in meaningful, playful ways with their communities.
