While the current UI serves its purpose, it is only temporary until we have established all the features that require UI components (we realise it needs reworking). We hope to have the UI redesigned for the next major release, taking inspiration from other real time strategy games.
On the right you can see an image of the current Instructions UI which appears at the top of the screen. Beneath that is a sneak peak at our first draft of what the new UI might look like.