Why is it a little cross?
Ever wondered what made the developers of windows choose the icons for close, minimise and maximise?
It came to me the other day that the choice for the close button has more than one meaning. Yes the cross is standard for no, cancel, remove which is basically what you are doing when want to close the window, but another more accurate term came to me.
When you want to leave somewhere you “Exit” the building, so taking the visuals litterly when you click on the close icon, you are X-ing it, or X-it-ing.
So now when ever you click the little close button you can rememeber that not only are you closing the window, but X-it-ing it too.
