Radial band at rest
QuietSignal
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Ability HUD Evolution
Cooldowns move out of the screen corners and into a radial band around the reticle, so ability state is read peripherally instead of by looking away from the fight.
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The idea
Destiny asks you to track four cooldowns while aiming at something trying to kill you. All four live in the bottom-left corner, which is the one place your eyes are not.
Moving them into a faint radial band around the reticle puts ability state inside the cone of attention you already hold. You stop checking and start knowing.
The proposal
- 1. Idle Band sits at low opacity, barely present
- 2. Charging Arc segments fill as each ability recovers
- 3. Ready A single pulse, then the segment holds bright
- 4. Spent Segment drains from the point of use outward
Why this matters
- Ability state is read without a saccade
- Cooldowns become spatial rather than numeric
- The corner HUD can shrink to almost nothing
- Works the same in first and third person
Explorations
Recovery fill direction
QuietSignal
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1
Ready-state pulse
QuietSignal
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9
All explorations 3
Radial band at rest
QuietSignal
16
3
Recovery fill direction
QuietSignal
18
1
Ready-state pulse
QuietSignal
8
9
Selected moments
The seconds worth keeping. No single exploration carries the whole idea — together these do.
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