Decided to run another user through this afternoon:
Here’s the video, and my notes:
Step two notes – Log in
No problems.
Step two notes – Explain what you see
No problems.
Step Three notes – Preview your blog
No problems.
Step Four notes – Change your background color
3:22 – She tried typing “blue” into the hex text field – didn’t work.
3:26 – No issues figuring out the color selector. Yay!
Step Five notes – Change your site title
No problems.
Step Six notes – Add your first post
No problems.
Step Seven notes – Preview your new post
No problems.
Step Eight notes – Publish an image
7:55 – Our first successful test of the new media flow. Double yay!
Recap
Smashing success. Came in at 8:32 for all tasks. Quickest time yet I do believe…
biznis86, 
Isaac Keyet 11:20 pm on October 2, 2012 Permalink
re: step 4: probably way overkill but it’d be cool if the field did support the basic colors as specified in html and css. I.e.: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, grey, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow.
biznis86 1:19 pm on October 9, 2012 Permalink
Why not using this simple color picker? http://jscolor.com/
toscho 12:04 am on October 3, 2012 Permalink
Or add a script that converts these words automatically to hex values when they are typed.
bradparbs 4:34 am on October 7, 2012 Permalink
Based on this and the other videos, no one seems to know what QuickPress is. I threw a ticket up on Trac, #22119, suggesting we rename it. I think it might help.