Agree with a lot of comments here about more/better communication. Depending on the size of company you're in there is a specialized role that bridges the gap.

Agree with a lot of comments here about more/better communication. Depending on the size of company you're in there is a specialized role that bridges the gap. At Google it's called a UX engineer, other companies call the roll Design Technologist (DT). DTs have a technical understanding of what's possible but work in UX and typically produce prototypes to assess technical feasibility of solutions. You can use these prototypes for stakeholder reviews, usability testing and they really derisk the build process. We had a really bad time of changing things in production multiple times which would take forever before we started prototyping and practicing iterative design and design thinking.