I agree with both here, and in my opinion the feedback/suggestions would be a lot more valuable coming from a person who has had their point of view grounded by the reality of designing a knife.
No, you don't. The point of this thread is to do something rather than just talk about things. Agreement is to design a knife. Everything else is just stalling.
I will say one thing that is a slight issue here. Most of us if we came up with a design would like to share it here, get feedback, etc. Most of us if we came up with a design would also like Spyderco to produce that design. And I think at least a few forum members have become Spyderco collaborators. But my understanding is you need to not show your design to the world for Spyderco to consider it. Kind of unfortunate, I don't know what else to say about that. Maybe if there were a special subforum where potential collaborators might post their designs that would get around this. Would be really cool actually.