The wi-fi-no-wi-fi is an origami textile form that changes shape in response to the absence of wi-fi networks (Figure 1). In this investigation we made eight wi-fi-no-wi-fis for future field deployment. Embedded in the thing is a processor, motor, wi-fi module, and a spring-loaded mechanism stitched to the textile form. The goal of wi-fi-no-wi-fi is to design with endings in mind, and in this case, making endings a key feature. As a result, wi-fi-no-wi-fi is programmed to regularly detect the presence of wi-fi networks within range. If it can detect a wi-fi network, it is functionally passive. If it does not detect a single wi-fi network, say there is a power failure or it is in a remote area, it will spring open and shape-change to a larger form (Figure 1). At this point, the motor will release the spring-loaded mechanism that “opens” the form, and the processor will shut down. It will, in terms of programmed functionality, cease to function, effectively ending its life as a computational shape-change thing, to further transform, be dismantled, reused, or decomposed to be compost and eventually humus. We design the wi-fi-no-wi-fi not as a technological device of some future utility but as a methodological (researching through designing) approach to investigating the questions of designing for the after-life of a thing.