How could Xero improve navigation or homepage?

The ability to reduce the widget size and wasted space would be sensible and for many, preferable. Or removing them completely - for small businesses the concept is not useful at all.
As mentioned by @Paul Rosser - confidentiality is a definite consideration with the oversized fonts. Bigger is definitely not better, even if programmers think it's flashy.

What is it with the GUI designers that they have to keep making font sizes extra large and generally wasting screen space with large blank border areas, so any advantage of increasing monitor size is negated by the boxes seemingly being the same ratio as the old homepage on the smaller monitor?

For those in open plan offices, there are confidentiality problems, because bank balances and the like become easier to read at a distance, so you'll be looking at hiding the dashboard from view as much as possible, slowing down your productivity, or it's a case of not having those widgets on the dashboard, defeating the point of the new widgets.

Either a double-width widget (spanning two columns) or an option for 2 columns. I find the 3 columns overwhelming.

Either a double-width widget (spanning two columns) or an option for 2 columns. I find the 3 columns overwhelming.

@Kelly -- This is similar to the request I posted a week or so ago. Someone on your team combined my request into a feature request for the released product (not the beta navigation), and you'll see that I left a comment saying I think that combination was a mistake -- trying to merge 2 distinct requests. If you need to combine my request (& any associated votes) anywhere, it should probably be here. Thanks.

Here's the link to the feature where my request was combined -- incorrectly, in my opinion: https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/47768120-xero-resize-in-conjunction-with-browser-window

I find the view is too much and some of the widgets are too big. I'd love to be able to choose a smaller size for some that don't need such significant real estate.

Also allow the Accountant to set a global view that would encompass client and team views. This makes sure that everyone is seeing the same reporting and data

Thank you.

I would like the ability to resize the widgets on the homepage. Perhaps this is offering versions of the widgets with or without different elements (e.g., toggling the bar chart on or off on the "bills to pay" or "invoices owed to you" widgets). Perhaps it's literally just about making it smaller & removing excessive white space (see attached example of the chart of accounts watchlist for one of my clients).