Why getting it?
Multimedia, the stuff that I have learned to create, is all about getting the message/fun/information etc. accross. Getting it is the state you want your user to reach. Understanding getting it is needed to understand other users. So as a designer you have to get it first.

Growing knowledge cloud.

Some raw bits:

• Getting it is the basic concept behind communication. (learning and multimedia are for example communication.)

• Getting it is all about grasping concepts.

• Getting it is where practical knowledge combined with feelings and emotions transcend to intuition. Where it gets to deeper layers of the brain.

• Getting it is building rational/emotional/practical intelligence.

• Getting it is all about seeing patterns.

• Getting it has to be obtained by bits, most concepts can’t be told in a linear fashion.

• Getting it is never reached the same way by other users. All is depending on the knowledge already acquired and which bits are needed.

• Getting it can be reached earlier by laying out all the factors early and connecting them early. The sooner you built an overall view the better.

• Getting it is all about acquiring the basic bits but also depends on the emotional/rational intelligence of the experiencer to connect the parts.

• Getting it is easier for open minded people who can reevaluate their believes and previous knowledge.

• Getting it can’t be directly transfered to another person itself. It has to be done in indirect meta knowledge.

• Getting it is reached easier with direct information on the senses than by abstractions. (Visual over text)

• Getting it is abstract knowledge combined with practical experience and intuition.

• Getting it is the point that all acquired knowledge combined works holisically, it generates new intuitive knowledge. (its more than the sum of the parts.)

• Getting it is where raw information transfers to intuition and emotion.

• Getting it can generate the Wow-feeling when the whole is formed.

An observation on my previous getting it post:
‘Old school’ schools try to form knowledge by trying to push the student through a preformed path. ‘New school’ schools try to let students search for the missing bits so they can reach the getting it themselves. The last one builds more intelligence and passion if done correctly.