jank

Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design.

This also marks the first time I haven’t felt that Samsung jank on the phone, which deserves its own paragraph in its own right. That weird stuttering and pausing you’ve seen on so many Samsung phones seems to be almost completely gone on the Note 3 […]

In cases where you’re concerned about scrolling, the browser can manage the frame rate for you. But if you introduce a large amount of jank, then it won’t be able to do as good a job.

Game mechanics of unconventional or flawed design or implementation, and the experience of such mechanics, as to ruin or disrupt play, or break immersion; e.g. bugs and glitches.

Bethesda’s jank made a PvP-centric experience hellish. Players kept finding exploits left and right.

Maybe Soulstorm is an ideal tribute to the PlayStation era, considering how much period-specific jank is in the code.

A game, or games, with such mechanics.

Janky.

Sadly, my new laptop is even more jank than my old one.