Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Invite developers to design critiques and involve them in the UX design process, particularly Design Thinking.
This fosters collaboration and ensures that both teams work together efficiently, everyone rowing in the same direction.
Developers can provide valuable insights into technical feasibility and implementation challenges.
I see this work really well even with more technical discussions like APIs and automated processes. Anything that a user ultimately interacts with can benefit from the Design Thinking process – it encourages focus on jobs to be done.
Make sure your developers feel empowered, if they understand the why of a design they can help build it with more investment and collaboration.