I never like to come to someone's "defense", but these UI changes are not all just cosmetics, and thus not all just "easily" implemented. While things like the Faction Progression info, the "I need a Raid Team" info in the tower, or the Ammo Synth Shortcut might be doable, many of the bigger proposed changes for a "HUD Menu" would need a lot of additional info to be kept "ready" in the memory, need to be streamed constantly and ready at a moment's notice. The reason the menu "loads" when you enter it, is that it actually does load (from the servers, I presume) the info for you to see. While, as I said, things like the Ammo Synth shortcut might be doable, it would still require the info of how many there are and what the countdown is to be present in the memory. The same goes for the Bounty Progression. And while those might just be numerical values, there still needs to be a graphical representation for it, and no matter how small the stuff, it accumulates. Having the Grimoire might seem like a cool idea, but would you really like it, if you basically had to open a web-browser during the game to surf the web and wait for the Grimoire to load? Destiny is constantly streaming and loading so much info, I'm not sure the "strain" is worth the trouble. I would like it if maybe the Tower got a Library where you could peruse the Grimoire at length, but that would be a lot different than having the Grimoire load into the menu pages - something that would have to theoretically work reliably without interfering with someone else's game (like your fireteam) even during a heated battle. It might not seem that way, but the Grimoire is a lot of data that needs to be loaded and bandwidth and speed are not endless. That said, with so many people having access to a smartphone and the app, you could just use that (and there it would be nice to have Faction Progression, even Vendor Stock and all other kinds of things viewable, at least more than it has now). In fact, the App provides a lot of the informational features this UI concept asks for. But I digress, so let's get back to these proposed changes. The weapons are a much bigger issue than anything else. All the variety, the different looks, stats, behaviors, bonuses, perks, all of that would have to be pre-loaded, for every weapon in your arsenal. Do you know how sometimes when you just quickly swap your weapons, the weapon will not appear but you're left with a fluid-energy frame in your hands? That's when the weapon data couldn't be loaded quickly enough - something that might even happen if most of the data is loaded locally from your HDD and only modifiers (like from hotfixes) are applied through the servers/cloud. Every time the menu loads, it does not do so just to frustrate people with loading times. The menu gives the program a chance to take something out of the memory and put in something else. Every time you change your weapon, the one you had is "dropped" from memory and the new one, with all its characteristics is put in. Doing something like that on the fly would either mean all of your weapons would have to be pre-loaded, which puts a lot of additional strain on the memory, or they would have to "load in", leaving you possibly with several seconds of not holding a gun in your hand while it's loading. Destiny already has to have a huge amount of "little things" in its memory, everything from your armor, shader, equipment, all three equipped weapons, your character class and its different moves and abilities, so what seems like just "small, simple UI shortcuts" are not that small in big scheme of things. Especially if you consider, that the game then has to stream that info, and any changes you make, to the servers who then have to stream it back into the game for other people around you to see and notice the effects. So, yes, maybe some of these changes could be done without much fuss, simply integrating these features into a "HUD-Menu", but that wouldn't alleviate the loading times. Without a considerable amount of new code and new memory allotment, all it would do is move the loading times to a different place. Instead of having the menu load for a few seconds with everything, you'd have a second of loading when opening the Navigation Screen until your Bounty Progress shows up. You'd have a second of loading for each weapon to be even shown in a HUD quick-swap menu, then another two seconds for the weapon to actually load into the game. And I think you would be amiss in assuming that things like that did not cross Bungie's mind during development. But they apparently decided that they'd rather have one menu with one loading time for everything, than lots of little loading times right during gameplay. I can only speak for myself, but I would find it much more immersion-adverse if I could quickly change my gun during gameplay, but it would actually take a few seconds for it to really "arrive" in the game. Not to disrespect the impressive efforts of the person who made these suggestions, Photoshop Pictures are a lot easier to make than the actual functionality, the systems and the information that would be behind those "simple UI improvements".

I wish copyright wasn't an issue. These are great ideas, and probably will never see the light of day unless Bungie hires this guy. Which they should.

Could they make the blues more blue? And the reds, less red? Could they make the shiny bits more chrome?

First of all, good work on your designs. Bungie decided to go quantity over quality. They chose to make DLC so they can cash in instead making the best game they could possibly make. Sure this stuff is going to take some time and coding, but this is stuff that is essential for a great game. I guess when you spend that much money, you need to worry about how you're going to get it back. I hope that they can update this stuff and improve the game, it would go a long way.

[quote][b]EDIT: DEEJ SAW IT[/b] http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/73281051/0/0 He also then went on to say that the features would require lots of coding, even though it's just UI changes. ...lol? [i]Follow the link, I would love for these features to be in my Destiny experience. This user has done an amazing job. [/i][/quote] UI changes require code behind them to support the data they will display. Not always a simple change...