  We ideate a future design workflow that involves AI technology. Drawing from
activity and communication theory, we attempt to isolate the new value large AI
models can provide design compared to past technologies. We arrive at three
affordances -- dynamic grounding, constructive negotiation, and sustainable
motivation -- that summarize latent qualities of natural language-enabled
foundation models that, if explicitly designed for, can support the process of
design. Through design fiction, we then imagine a future interface as a
diegetic prototype, the story of Squirrel Game, that demonstrates each of our
three affordances in a realistic usage scenario. Our design process,
terminology, and diagrams aim to contribute to future discussions about the
relative affordances of AI technology with regard to collaborating with human
designers.
