Thanks Ethan - it could definitely be a follow up article.

John Cutler did a good short post/infograph of what design-dev collaboration can look like - https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-2853-developer-and-designer-collaboration

Things can look very different depending on the team and context but some other practices that I've seen teams like this do, off the top of my head:

- kick offs: when starting a new task they get together either as a whole team or trio to kick the work off

- collaborative workshops: doing workshops together. Common ones being ideation, design workshops, customer journey mapping, strategy workshops, market segmentation, technical/solution design, IA design, etc.

- shoulder checks: where during development, they will gather around the devs computer and review the work in progress as a team or trio.

Hope that helps!

As I said it can be contextual which is why I run workshops and work with teams to help coach them to work this way. Sometimes it's just making small shifts to what they're already doing to be more collaborative :)