How to resize elements of the game view

So in screen shots and videos I have seen, people have their game windows set up so that the information portion (health, minimap, status, weather etc…) of the screen is significantly smaller than the default size and their terrain view takes up the extra space. It looks much better and now that I have seen that it is possible the default set up feels claustrophobic.

How do I do this?

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