
Brett Fiedler contributed to the phetsims/membrane-transport repository by developing and refining interactive educational simulations focused on membrane transport. Over seven months, Brett delivered 29 features and resolved 12 bugs, emphasizing accessibility, UI/UX clarity, and simulation fidelity. His work included SVG asset management, TypeScript-driven UI enhancements, and JavaScript-based parameter tuning to improve particle dynamics and user feedback. He integrated audio engineering and localization, updated documentation, and maintained release assets to support onboarding and QA. Brett’s technical approach balanced visual clarity, maintainability, and accessibility, resulting in a robust, user-friendly simulation platform with well-documented, traceable improvements across multiple releases.

October 2025: Delivered visual asset updates for Membrane-Transport and clarified Core Voicing within release notes to strengthen documentation quality and user guidance. Business value delivered includes clearer onboarding, improved presentation materials, and enhanced release transparency. No major bugs fixed this month; effort focused on asset management, documentation hygiene, and release-notes governance. Technologies and skills demonstrated include Git-based asset management, visualization asset work, documentation practices, and release-management.
October 2025: Delivered visual asset updates for Membrane-Transport and clarified Core Voicing within release notes to strengthen documentation quality and user guidance. Business value delivered includes clearer onboarding, improved presentation materials, and enhanced release transparency. No major bugs fixed this month; effort focused on asset management, documentation hygiene, and release-notes governance. Technologies and skills demonstrated include Git-based asset management, visualization asset work, documentation practices, and release-management.
September 2025 monthly summary focusing on membrane-transport and phet-info work, with emphasis on accessibility, UI clarity, documentation, and release readiness. The month delivered tangible business value through accessible UI improvements, clearer interaction cues, and strengthened QA processes, while advancing release assets and documentation across two repositories.
September 2025 monthly summary focusing on membrane-transport and phet-info work, with emphasis on accessibility, UI clarity, documentation, and release readiness. The month delivered tangible business value through accessible UI improvements, clearer interaction cues, and strengthened QA processes, while advancing release assets and documentation across two repositories.
August 2025 monthly summary for phetsims/membrane-transport: Delivered a broad set of enhancements across audio, visuals, and UI, coupled with extensive bug fixes, resulting in clearer guidance, more reliable interactions, and a polished user experience across the membrane-transport feature set.
August 2025 monthly summary for phetsims/membrane-transport: Delivered a broad set of enhancements across audio, visuals, and UI, coupled with extensive bug fixes, resulting in clearer guidance, more reliable interactions, and a polished user experience across the membrane-transport feature set.
July 2025 highlights for membrane-transport: delivered a UI/icon refresh, language and string refinements across UI and charts, audio balance improvements, and targeted fixes to glucose fade and readouts. Key deliverables include new screen/home/nav icons, refined barchart language, improved pump/readout visuals, and UI image/layout updates, plus code-quality improvements. These changes increase usability, accuracy of readouts, and overall user engagement, while strengthening the maintainability of the codebase.
July 2025 highlights for membrane-transport: delivered a UI/icon refresh, language and string refinements across UI and charts, audio balance improvements, and targeted fixes to glucose fade and readouts. Key deliverables include new screen/home/nav icons, refined barchart language, improved pump/readout visuals, and UI image/layout updates, plus code-quality improvements. These changes increase usability, accuracy of readouts, and overall user engagement, while strengthening the maintainability of the codebase.
June 2025: Delivered targeted gradient bias parameter tuning for MembraneTransportModel in phetsims/membrane-transport to improve gradient-driven particle movement accuracy. Key changes reduced BIAS_THRESHOLD from 0.1 to 0.05 and GRADIENT_BIAS_STRENGTH from 1 to 0.25. Change linked to issue https://github.com/phetsims/membrane-transport/issues/201. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: enhanced fidelity of gradient-based simulations and more reliable calibration for downstream analyses. Skills demonstrated: gradient-based modeling, parameter tuning, version control, issue tracing, and cross-team collaboration.
June 2025: Delivered targeted gradient bias parameter tuning for MembraneTransportModel in phetsims/membrane-transport to improve gradient-driven particle movement accuracy. Key changes reduced BIAS_THRESHOLD from 0.1 to 0.05 and GRADIENT_BIAS_STRENGTH from 1 to 0.25. Change linked to issue https://github.com/phetsims/membrane-transport/issues/201. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: enhanced fidelity of gradient-based simulations and more reliable calibration for downstream analyses. Skills demonstrated: gradient-based modeling, parameter tuning, version control, issue tracing, and cross-team collaboration.
April 2025 monthly summary for phetsims/membrane-transport: Delivered two major feature sets with targeted visual/UI improvements and addressed key rendering edge cases to enhance educational clarity and user experience. The work focused on visual fidelity of the membrane transport simulation, UI readability, and more realistic particle dynamics, underpinned by careful commit-level changes and asset updates.
April 2025 monthly summary for phetsims/membrane-transport: Delivered two major feature sets with targeted visual/UI improvements and addressed key rendering edge cases to enhance educational clarity and user experience. The work focused on visual fidelity of the membrane transport simulation, UI readability, and more realistic particle dynamics, underpinned by careful commit-level changes and asset updates.
February 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments in the membrane-transport repo. Delivered targeted UI improvement by enhancing accordion labels to improve clarity and user understanding without altering core functionality. No major bugs fixed this period; bug-fix activity is planned for the next cycle. The change is minimal-risk and aligns with ongoing UI/UX improvements and maintainability efforts.
February 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments in the membrane-transport repo. Delivered targeted UI improvement by enhancing accordion labels to improve clarity and user understanding without altering core functionality. No major bugs fixed this period; bug-fix activity is planned for the next cycle. The change is minimal-risk and aligns with ongoing UI/UX improvements and maintainability efforts.
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