The master category navigation is positioned at the bottom of the view to allow easy reach. For example, if there is an announcement of a new DLC, you would see a badge over the Bungie category. The Navigation change required the addition of badging for when content was awaiting you in a category. From Bungie news, to the Bungie store, to the help section - this is where you interact with the developer. The fireteam builder, groups and forums reside in this category.īungie is all things meta. Social pertains to your social interactions in the game. The sub-navigational items are gear, inventory, stats and actions. Guardian is everything that pertains to your characters. I arranged those choices into three categories: Guardian, Social and Bungie. The app currently has a side-drawer with 12 choices. I reworked the navigation of the app to a hierarchical system. I believe those peers-based social ties could help create reasonable teams when you just didn’t have enough people online to create one totally on your own. I wanted to create a fireteam builder based on the loose associations of your friends. I belong to a Facebook group that mainly consists of people finding fireteams for raids. I think players in the community have shown a lot of desire for a solution to this. One could argue this is the wrong direction since it’s initially more visually confusing, but I think it actually works really well for this app since it’s an interface system you learn over time. I wanted to be able to see more data at once and allow more action pivots from every view to increase my speed and productivity when using the app. The Destiny Companion app gives you tons of information about your guardian and allows you to take a multitude of actions on your inventory. This was a hard one for me, since I usually aim to design views that are as simple as possible. I decided to go guardian first with the landing view to allow you to take action on your guardian as fast as possible.

I understand why Bungie launches the app with Bungie news as the initial view but I believe this isn’t the most appropriate time to display this content. Here are the guiding principles in which I wanted to redesign the app. I saw some room for improvement in each of those use cases. Is there anyway to use your social connections to create quality fireteams when you don’t have enough friends online? Design Principles A fireteam works a lot better when you know and trust the other guardians. Raids work best when 6 guardians play simultaneously.

I sometimes check the app to see if anyone is online to play. What if I could perform custom actions on my phone instead of jumping out of the action and into the in-game menu system? Build a Fireteam This is somewhat tedious to do in-game, the phone interface could be leveraged for additional commands.

I want to manage my inventory while I am playing Destiny. This usually involves me opening the app, opening the side menu, choosing ‘Legend’, then paging over to my gear and hunting for the piece I’m talking about. I want to show someone in real life some of my gear or some of my game stats. Here are the three most common ways I use the app. Since I love it so much, I decided to give it a rethink based off the way I personally use it. Bungie created one of my favorite companion apps to a video game with Destiny Companion.

Destiny 1 companion app