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Homepage - Simplify layout

The beta version of the new Xero layout. updated interface feels overly busy and cluttered, which makes navigation more difficult—particularly for clients who manage multiple bank accounts.

I believe users should have the choice to switch to the new layout when they’re ready, rather than being automatically transitioned.
Additionally, clients pay for Xero to streamline their financial management, not to have advertising pushed at them.

The current design detracts from the user experience and makes it harder to find and complete tasks efficiently.

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In development  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Hi community, thank you for all the engagement and we can see the growing interest in improvements to help simplify your view of information on the new Homepage and navigate important information and insights with more ease.

Right now, our team have a few pieces of work underway intended to help with some of the pain points that have been raised here these include:

  • More options for the sizing of widgets so you can reduce these frames and better position this information on your screen
  • More customisation of information within a widget like being able to remove visuals
  • Improving the experience of moving widgets when editing the homepage to make it more obvious when dragging and dropping them to different positions on the page

We’ve also roadmapped further changes for later this year, once everyone is on the new experience. I’ll share more updates as we progress.

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  • Charles Weyman Jones commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just go back to a list for businesses with more than one account! Not rocket science or I will have to find another system

  • Marie Fearon commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hello could we please have a widget for quotes to add to the home page - would save time

    Thanks

    Marie

  • Anthony Morgan commented  ·   ·  Report

    I really dislike the new homepage layout as it's too cluttered. Changes should enhance the user experience but this is a retrograde step. This is change for change sake and the developer should adopt the KISS principle. Could we please have the option to keep the old homepage permanently.

  • Naclo Pools commented  ·   ·  Report

    your unsubscribe doesn't work. and i do not want to blacklist your no reply email as i am interested in other ideas on this forum website moreover i do not want to untick all emails notification about every single idea i support.

    i've clicked unsubscribed a bunch of times for this particular "idea"

    everyone here is like "fix homepage" i agree as well but fix your "unsubscribe button" first

  • Sarah Schutte commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would like to see Draft Invoices on the new homepage because it will remind me to send them out !!

  • Jenny Dow commented  ·   ·  Report

    I do NOT like this new layout. Its too busy, and it removed the line graph on the bank account widget which was extremely useful before. I also do NOT like the split screens on the bills page when you click on a bill. Its way too busy and adds nothing.

  • Chris Thames commented  ·   ·  Report

    I dont personally want ANY widgets on my homepage. If someone in my office is looking over my shoulder, I dont want them to see any accounting data that might be on my screen. When you have all widgets hidden, the homepage looks incredibly dull.

  • Donna Carter commented  ·   ·  Report

    Having just been flicked over to the "new improved" home page today for our practice file, I spent so long rearranging bank accounts, etc on my office computer, only to come home and will need to redo the whole thing again, because that screen fits 4 widgets across, not the 3 that the office screen has.

    The more user-friendly OLD home page, stayed the same, no matter how wide the screen – 2 widgets across.

    You say that you are putting in more options for resizing widgets. Nowhere in this resizing is the option to make a widget smaller. The old Chart of Accounts widget changed in size depending on how many accounts you were monitoring. The new one is twice the size of the bank account, with all this white space if you are only monitoring a couple of accounts, or you have to scroll (or make larger) if you have more that 8 or 9 accounts, because, yet again, Xero have decided that everything must be S O S P A C E D O U T
    So frustrating and such a waste of space

    There is not ONE, SINGLE, USEFUL change that has been made with this supposed "upgrade"

    The only thing Xero has been achieved here is to make it easier for people walking past to read PRIVATE FINANCIAL information because it is so much larger on the screen

    Xero, get your act together, do you job and fix these glaringly obvious issues that you have created. We should not have to be guinea pigs to identify issues that you have created before you address these deficiencies

    You have butchered and degraded what was once a fully functioning home page

  • Mick Barratt commented  ·   ·  Report

    The new home page is utterly overwhelming and has zero structure. Frankly you are moving us (forcibly) from a useful, ordered, logical streamlined home page to a mess, where items are listed without reason and is overwhelming.
    PLEASE don't force us to this!

  • Cecilia Raymond commented  ·   ·  Report

    Great way to start the week! This ‘improvement’ is a complete waste of everyone's time. Dashboard worked just fine before. Ditto the Archive/Filing fiasco.

  • Daniel Scott commented  ·   ·  Report

    Too busy and too in your face! Easier on the eye before!

  • Colin Olding commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop trying to fix something that wasn't broken, it's an absolute sh*t show now instead of something you could see at a glance what was what.!!

  • Rachel Osborn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please put back the ability to scroll down the page which allows us to add and place the widgets where we want them visually.
    Many thanks

  • Rachel Osborn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ironically, I have had to delete useful widgets I've always had on my Homepage because I can't lay it out the way I want to see it now, so I have less information available to me.

    Please stop making senseless changes and listen to your cusotmers.

  • Rachel Osborn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please allow us to size the new widgets so we can determine our layout.

    I don't love this new look - way too busy for me but with everything else you push on us I will have to get used to it, as you keep taking choice away from your customers.

    I prefer the current version which is very clean and easy to navigate.

    I am not a fan of Xero I have to say.

  • Naclo Pools commented  ·   ·  Report

    hey bro, i'm trying to unscribe from this thread; won't work and i keep getting spammed.

  • Joanna Boyd commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don't like the new version at all - it is hard to manage and the information is not easy to find at first glance like the old homepage.

    Suggestion - Don't get rid of the old homepage.
    Keep the old page as a Classic Look - and let us choose which we want to use.

    Would be much appreciated!!
    Joanna

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