This is always a good feature in your sci fi animations, a HUD.

Beginner

He creates a nice looking motion graphic using simple shapes.

He makes some shapes, and animates them.  Nice design for the HUD. 

Kit Bashing was first started by buying real model kits and making new things out of all the various parts.  Like having legos from a bunch of kits and making something new.

As Blender makes it's new asset manager system, Kit Bashing will become easier and more fun.  

Several plugins already have this functionality such as the kit ops plugin.  (very fun and fast to make for example sci fi props)