Editing Blog/2025-02-19/Twitter Coincidences (section)

== Disability Insurance Benefit Calculations ==

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| name = Matt Darling 
| username = besttrousers 
| text = One thing to note about this - it's not something that can be done by working on the edges of these systems (ie, website redesign). 

A lot of these systems are just complicated, and would need to be substantially changed to make them legible.
Every government process that a normal person might have to interact with, including permitting, licensing, zoning, applying for benefits, and paying taxes, must pass the grandma test: you can explain it to a grandma on the phone and she can do it in under 30 minutes.
| date = Feb 19, 2025
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{{Tweet
| name = Matt Darling 
| username = besttrousers
| replyto = besttrousers
| text = For example: your UI benefits are based on your earning in your "base period" - the “first four out of the last five completed calendar quarters prior to the time that your claim is filed.”

It's very hard to explain what that means to most people.
| date = Feb 19, 2025
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| name = Roshan George
| username = arjie
| replyto = besttrousers
| text = Not to be facile but doesn't that seem like the best time for a website? It seems like an interactive tool would help with things like that.

Obviously 10 min with Claude+ChatGPT isn't going to give the best results but it seems like a matter of copywriting and visualization rather than an inherently impossible task.

https://viz.roshangeorge.dev/ui-bp/
| date = Feb 19, 2025
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And then moments later we received Julie's California maternity leave benefits:

[[File:Julie Maternity Benefits - Calculation Period.jpg|frame|center|The little viz was created just in time to explain which periods would be in]]