While I am not a fan of (but don't hate) skeumorphic design, I really learned to appreciate skeumorphism in my many failed efforts to get my father (who was in

While I am not a fan of (but don't hate) skeumorphic design, I really learned to appreciate skeumorphism in my many failed efforts to get my father (who was in his mid 70s the first time I tried) to learn how to use a smartphone. He doesn't want to read stuff on the screen, and a lot of concepts just didn't click with him. Would I be able to get him to learn a smartphone with a fully skeumorphic design? Probably not, but he might have understood more concepts than I could teach him with a flat design.