I Used AI to Design a Product in Under 10 Minutes (Here's How)

Most people spend hours agonising over what to design and how to make it look good. In this video, I skipped most of that by using two AI tools to go from zero to a finished product mockup in under 10 minutes, and I did it on a lunch break.

Here is the exact process I used, broken down step by step.

Step 1: Find a trending niche with Perplexity

Before touching any design tool, I went to Perplexity and searched for Mother's Day designs that were trending and suitable for print-on-demand products like mugs and t-shirts.

Rather than guessing or scrolling through Etsy for an hour, Perplexity surfaced clear trend signals in seconds: clean typography, bold mama text blocks with floral patterns, minimalist line art, and retro styling. It even generated a ready-to-use AI image prompt based on what it found.

That prompt was: "elegant floral wreath design, mama/mum text, whimsical floral." Simple, but that is all I needed.

Step 2: Generate the design in Kittl

I took that prompt straight into Kittl and used the Nano Banana AI image generator. Within about 30 seconds I had a floral wreath design on screen. It came back with both "mama" and "mum" in the design, so I used the remix feature to clean it up and centre the text properly.

When the AI generated text did not sit quite right, I just added the word manually using Kittl's text tool, browsed the hand-lettering fonts, picked one I liked, and adjusted the colour to match the design. The whole thing stayed in the same tool throughout.

Step 3: Preview it on actual products

Once the design was done, I added it to two mockups directly inside Kittl, a t-shirt and a mug. The mug mockup even wraps the design around the curve of the product, which gives you a realistic preview without needing Photoshop or a separate mockup tool.

Step 4: Generate a video with Veo 3

This is the part that surprised me. I flattened the mug mockup, then used Kittl's built-in video generation feature (Veo 3.1 Fast) to animate it with a rotating motion. The whole render took about a minute and cost 80 credits.

The result was a polished, shiny, rotating mug video, the kind of thing that catches attention on Etsy listings or social media without any manual animation work.

What this workflow actually gives you

The point is not just speed. It is that every tool in this stack is handling a specific job:

• Perplexity handles the market research and prompt writing

• Kittl handles image generation, design editing, and mockups

• Veo 3 handles the animated product video

You are not doing any of those things manually. You are directing the process.

What you need to replicate this

Both tools have free tiers you can start with. Perplexity is excellent for research even on the free plan, and Kittl gives you a solid amount of credits to experiment before committing to a paid tier.

The affiliate links for both are below the video on YouTube if you want to support the channel while signing up.

Want the free design file from this video? Download it here

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