I sort my bricks by color in drawers and bins, and organize my minifig parts into storage drawers; I further organize my minifig heads by Paleface, normal (yellow), and other (skeleton heads, orc heads, etc.) [This is mainly due to Palefaces: Battle for Dominance, but it does make minifigs easier to create]. I hope to someday organize by bricks by the brick type instead of by color, or perhaps by both type and color for bricks I have a lot of, but considering how long it took to sort them by color, I probably won't

I have a bunch of orgainizers, and I sort by part (except for bricks, those are sorted by color).  When I'm building, I find that I want a certain part but I usually don't know what color I want yet.  I tried sorting by color once (before I started brickfilming), but that didn't work because it was hard to find the part I wanted.  Especially the small ones, which were buried under all the larger parts.  I don't have all my pieces sorted yet, though.

With minifigs, I have torso and leg combinations on a few baseplates.  I put headgear and extra legs in organizer bins and older and more common torsos in a bin.  I put minifig heads on small baseplates stacked by similar facial features (glasses, facial hair, ect.), which is called the "Forest of Heads" technique.  0ld Scratch does something similar.

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There's already a thread for this. No one's posted in it for a few years, but I don't think there's anything wrong with a bump as long as it's on topic.