Custom cursors are risky.
They can make a product feel special, but they can also become the thing you notice instead of the thing you came to do. For Wags, the cursor needed to feel like a tiny brand detail, not a new layer of interface.
The signature
I added a brand pointer and glove cursor for the main interaction states.
The idea was simple: let the product have a little more physicality at the exact point where someone is about to touch it. Not everywhere, not constantly, just enough to make the interface feel more owned.
The restraint
The first pass had more personality than it needed.
After review, I removed the highlighter selection idea and reduced the cursor size. That made the detail quieter and more useful. It still feels like Wags, but it no longer asks the user to admire it.
The craft
The cursors shipped as transparent image assets with sharper density handling and Safari-friendly fallbacks.
That part is mostly invisible, which is the point. A brand flourish only works if it behaves like the rest of the platform. If it flickers, blurs, or breaks in one browser, the charm disappears immediately.