I guided students through developing an AI-powered meal planning and grocery budgeting application for international students in Vancouver. I mentored the team through comprehensive user research, helping them identify key user struggles including food insecurity and cultural barriers to cooking. During the design divergence phase, I provided feedback on their three distinct visual directions, supporting their decision-making process around color palettes, typography choices, and layout structures that would best serve ESL users. I facilitated their two-phase user testing methodology, guiding them through think-aloud protocols and helping them synthesize feedback into actionable improvements. My mentorship focused on addressing usability issues like cognitive load reduction, language clarity for international students, and interface consistency - ultimately helping them create a refined prototype with improved onboarding flows, budget visualization, and recipe instruction formatting that better supported their target users' needs.