Website
doesnothing.app, in English and Spanish: a working simulator of the app, a live estimate of the world doing nothing and a printable manual.
Web · HTML, CSS and JavaScript, no dependencies
Designed and built by [D4U]
Case study
nada An app that does nothing, built like one that does everything.
Nada is a parody of productivity apps with a serious challenge inside. We took it from the idea to two native apps, a design system, a website and the stores.
- PlatformsiPhone and Android
- StatusComing soon
The challenge
Phones are built to keep us busy. Nada had to make doing nothing feel like an achievement.
For anyone who checks the phone too often. The joke had to be funny for a second and still work after months: it measures, ranks and celebrates nothing, and inside it asks for one real thing, putting the phone down. And it had to be built with the care of a product that does everything.
What we built
Three pieces, one product.
The same product on the web, on iPhone and on Android, with one look and one voice. These are real screens of the app.
iPhone
A native app with its own design system, haptics on every tap, motion sensors for the Challenge and local notifications.
iOS · Swift and SwiftUI
Android
The same app, built natively a second time with the same look, control by control. No web views.
Android · Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
What we did
From the idea to the stores.
- Concept and humor
- Brand
- Product design
- iPhone
- Android
- Website
- Content
- Six languages
- Store launch
Key decisions
How we built nothing.
It connects to nothing
No servers, no account, no analytics. Everything is calculated and kept on the phone, so it works offline and there is nothing to leak.
One design system, two native apps
Colors, type and spacing live in one set of design tokens that both apps read, and every control is drawn by that system. iPhone and Android look the same, down to the switches and the alerts.
One source for every word
Each language lives in one file that both apps share, and tests check that all six languages are complete. No screen ships half-translated.
A serious challenge inside the joke
The Nada Challenge uses the phone's sensors to know it stays face down, from 5 minutes to 4 hours.
In numbers
A small app, real numbers.
2native appsiPhone and Android. No web views.
1design systemShared by both apps, control by control.
6languagesEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and German.
0serversThe app doesn't connect to anything.
40achievementsAll of them useless. Collectable anyway.
2storesApp Store and Google Play.
Your project
Have an idea like this?
We design and build the whole product: the brand, the apps, the website and the launch. Even when it does nothing.
Typefaces: Onest and Unbounded, under the SIL Open Font License.